My grandmother called me up one day and said, 'Hey Alan, do you want to go to China?' I said OK (it got me out of high school for two weeks ;-). I've (finally) scanned the negatives and some of the prints of the pictures I took. First stop: San Francisco, then a 13 hour + a day flight to Shanghai. From there we went to Beijing. We stayed briefly in Guanzhou, then left the People’s Republic by train to Hong Kong.
I served in the U. S. Army from 1984 to 1988. The Army sent me to Germany after basic training, and I took pictures of Zirndorf and Nürnberg, Rhine Castles, Berchtesgaden, and Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau.
I took the Appalachia 1989 series while an undergraduate student at Frostburg State University. I developed the negatives that I've finally scanned, and now put a few on-line. I've also scanned this dark-room made self-portrait:
I took the Jamaica 1991 series while there as part of a seminar in third world geography that I had as a graduate student at The Pennsylvania State University.