I earned my first camera at age 11 by selling magazines, progressed to an Argus C3 in my late teens, and began using a Crown Graphic 4x5 press camera in the 1950s. I sold my first photo essay - a piece about sports car racing on a frozen lake outside Detroit - to the Detroit News Sunday Roto Section in 1952. That began a career as a photographer, writer and photojournalist that has spanned more than 50 years.

Today, I concentrate on fine art photography and continue to win awards for my work (3 top awards & 4 honorable mentions in the last 3 Photographic Society of America camera club competitions I entered). My photos (and digital art I also create) is exhibited regularly at a gallery in Morro Bay, CA, and on two Internet galleries: www.capulinstudios.com and www.gallery.now.com/fermoyle. (My art is displayed at
www.topangacanyongallery.com)

My aim is to capture the beauty of nature, preferably in dramatic ways and from angles that might be overlooked in a casual glance. I literally attempt to paint what I visualize, with a lens as my bruch and film or digital sensors as my canvas. I also look for interesting architectural compositions and have been mildly obsessed by rocks, boulders and intriguing stone formations for some years.

A period of legal blindness from about May 2003 to January 2005 - partially coffected by surgery - gave me new perspective, a different way of looking at things. I believe that has made me more senstive to what I see around me. Indeed, I think I am a better photographer and digital artist for that experience, traumatic as it was for one who had been a voracious reader since childhood and whose eyes were crucial to his livlihood.

But I leave that judgement to you. For me now, life is good, life with art in it is great!