Your photographers parents and your own impact your modeling career. The apple does not fall far from the tree. We are a decedent of two very famous Americans and a founding father president of the United States. My direct family, relatives, past decedents all genius types and graduated first to third at Harvard, MIT, Columbia Universities and other top schools in the country.

My father is one of the most famous unknowns for a whole paragraph of top inventions in the world. Prior to that with his 196 IQ my father served General Patton, General Bradley and back to General Patton for the entire Battle of the Bulge on the front lines,, liberation of Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camp. My dad later hunted down the Nazi SS and was at Hitler’s Eagles Nest  and Nuremberg Trials yet never called to testify,

If you ever saw the HBO series BAND OF BROTHERS, my father is one of the two soldiers being held at by Patton but my father said Patton never held at him directly.

After the war my father with a few of his close friends invented some of the most significant inventions in the history of the world used by every country for their defense to you using perhaps 5 of his inventions daily. He also invented some Apollo luna module parts along with the thrusters that set the Apollo 13 astronauts back on course to earth. My dad received an award from NASA for his part

By the time I was three I was printing and reading lots of books and had the GOLDEN BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA’s I read daily many times.

I later started reading Funk & Wagnall’s  junior encyclopedias in first grade before 3rd and in 5th grade parents bought us the Encyclopedia Britannica I would read with my exceptionally smart mom answering any questions and finished almost all volumes start to finish before 7th grade. I would then go to used book stores and book sales in the malls and buy books on calculus, speed reading, accounting, astronomy, physics, Mark Twain, Shakespeare and so much more including anatomy. I read so many books on Quantum Mechanics yet was a business major and not a physics major.I know alot of world and American history. All the presidents and alot about each or did a year ago.

My memory before a doctor ruined my legs was a the best of the best. Still beyond world class but I used to remember everything and forget nothing. Today I forget more in a day than I had my entire life more due to pain some days.

My dad was an awesome chess player and taught me at 4. I played often and taught friends. I stopped in 7th grade having a girl friend and much more fun than playing a board game despite enjoying kicking ass.

A friend in late 70s who I taught and was one of the best chess players around Boston asked me to go to a Master Seminar with around 20 chess masters in New York. I was bored within an hour and was asked if I would like to sign up too for a few never showed. Well I had not played chess much but quickly beat 13 ranked chess masters over the 3 days. I figure I could think close to 60 moves ahead. Over by Harvard I played another master for $100 that is like $700 in today’s dollar and kick his butt after he was just in a newspaper fro being so good and from Boston.

I never needed to write a telephone number down till my legs got hurt and could no the exact cost of around 50 grocery items in my friends cart each time and he would give me $50 if within 2 cents. We would go home shopping and 3 weeks later I would remember every real estate sign phone number.

I had awesome day jobs besides owning my own small businesses. I did THINK TANK work with other genius types from Harvard, MIT, Yale and would outthink them all combined that I’ve been able to do my entire life. Noone has out though me and despite family and relatives in the IQ Ange of 190, I can out think them all. My mothers’s sister with an IQ of 184 and my cousin at 192 who graduated 2nd at MIT are two besides my father who like myself were well versed in all of life.

What does this all mean? Well Patton the greatest of all generals made my dad a perfectionist and my dad had us always early, polite and with class.

My dads family in todays’ dollars would be worth around $35 Billion. We owned around 6800 acres in Boston, 300 acres on an island and 800 acres that my cousin inherited near Kennebunkport Maine on and near the water. Bought the one multi million dollar home blocking the best view of the harbor to take it down so the view would be perfect.

Growing up my grandmother before moving to Beverly Hills had a gorgeous home with a huge pond as dd my mom aunt near Duxbury. We would play mouse trap and other games as my grandmothers 3 servants and cook would cater to us. So when models talk about rich or how their modeling catering to the rich works out I have that covers besides myself.

I started photography 1966 and started shooting models to agency models in 1968. My friend’s sister saw my pics of her horse and asked if I would shoot her and she and her mom we in shock how great they were. Her mom said “well you know he’s a genius like his dad”.