I graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi (Bret Farve :), then went to work for the MS Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, producing training films and public service announcements. In 1989, I began producing for an outdoor variety program entitled Mississippi Outdoors and continued with the show through 2007 when I retired.
Outdoors was a great job. Here, we see our show host, Melvin Tingle, fishing with the Elvis Presley, who really didn't die in 1977 (he just escaped Memphis to get away from the rat race.) Elvis ended up in Picayune, Mississippi, where he (to this day) fishes the lower reaches of the Pearl River, eating only what he catches -- "Sort of a Jenny Craig thing," in Elvis' words.
My still photography was shot using either a Pentax medium format, 6 x 7 camera or a Canon F1, 35 mm camera on Kodachrome 25, slide film.
I love the purity of silhouettes, especially those backlit by beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Those images I scanned into the computer prior to Katrina were primarily my silhouette shots.
Sixty-four of the seventy-two images saved from Hurricane Katrina will eventually go up for sale, eight per Platt (grouping). Please click on "Pictures for Sale" to see the first eight images being offered.
Contact me at: sweetpee69@bellsouth.net
