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This image is not so much about Elvis as it is about the era in which he was popular. For 20 years - a generation - from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, with the Cold War and nuclear testing as a backdrop, the songs of Elvis Presley were popular. At the same time, a generation of baby boomers came of age. Their early simplistic and idealistic views of life, witnessed by the nuclear family, the sexualization of women as ideal Playboy bunnies - or pinups (mine) as in this image - and the notion that flower power could overcome greed and big business, soon gave way to reality. Greater equality for women and unprecedented globalization that brought foreign wars to the doorstep of the west were too much to handle. Their innocence - whether history would judge it as positive or negative - had blown up with the remaining sputters of bomb tests.

I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...