In 1977 I got my first professional camera in Key West Florida and started shooting right away every sunset sunrise palm tree characters in my grandfathers bar I went camera crazy there was one thing on my mind a lot of memories I had of Times Square in New York City we all use to cut school in the early 70s and take the train over there the people the buildings just amazed me so after shooting in Key West for one year I had to fly back home to visit family and friends I also couldn’t wait to get over to time square to shoot some film the year 1978 I made it to Times Square with my camera and four rolls of film this is one of the first pictures I took with a real camera in Times Square The bizarre thing is 10 years later in 1988 I get a job in a camera store pretty much at that same location and ended up shooting thousands of images check out my digital library portraitsofnewyork.com if you go to my image bank mia5.com you will see 65,000 images that I edited out of 300,000 every i