MarinEStudios: Web design, Illustration, Photography, Publishing, Promotions

Marine Studios.

Web Design.

Photography.

Illustration.

Publishing.

About Me

I have been involved with art ever since I can remember. Early attempts included painting a splendid series of mountains across my bedroom wall with cherry-red nail polish when I was about seven years old. While the effort was applauded, it was not appreciated and did not survive the month. That was followed by copying cartoon characters onto random materials found around the neighborhood. These were sold for 25 cents each from my front stoop on San Francisco's Divisadero Street. Because of a remarkably short attention span, this early successful sales venture was short-lived and I went back to riding bicycles up and down San Francisco's hills with the neighborhood kids. After many starts and stops, I landed at the San Francisco Chronicle when it was family-owned and a splendid place to work. Through encouragement from the photographers and writers there, and from being in the presence of so many talented people, I managed to win a few awards for photography and writing. For the past 35 years, I have photographed places and people in the port cities around the U.S., Canada, Holland, France, England, Ireland, Wales, Central America and Mexico, South Pacific (including French Polynesia, Rarotonga, New Zealand, Australia), Thailand, and Japan. I am an amateur maritime historian and have received awards and accolades from around the world for the body of work on my non-profit corporation The Maritime Heritage Project. The project is dedicated to preserving shipping history in California, and I believe it is the only site purely dedicated to America's West Coast shipping history—it includes lists of passengers, and stories of the captains and ships that brought people to California during the mid-1800s. Most of it is original research. I am extremely proud of the site. I have been working with Web design for more than twenty years, including the start-up phases of the Chronicle's websites in 1983 (then called VideoText). This lead to architecture/navigation, hand-coded HTML, DreamWeaver, HomeSite, CoffeeCup, graphics creation and optimization, and more photography. I also have more than 25 years' experience as an illustrator (crowquill pen and Luma dyes), and am a fledgling, struggling, enthusiastic oil and water-color painter. I printed a small series of books hand-bound in silk in a Japanese binding style. Ever restless, in Summer of 2006, I passed the California real estate exam and became a licensed Realtor.

Maritime Heritage Project
	Researcher, designer, developer The Maritime Heritage Project, a California non-profit corporation, was started in 1996 to preserve West Coast shipping history. The award-winning project focuses on ships, captains and passengers arriving in San Francisco during the mid-1800s. It features over 800 "pages" with more than 20,000 names of ships, captains and passengers and is used by researchers, geneaologists, educators, and students from around the world.

Education
University of California, Berkeley	English Literature, Photography, Children's Book Illustration
Worcester College, Oxford University Oxford, England	19th Century English Literature
College of Marin Kentfield, California	English Literature, DreamWeaver, HomePage, FrontPage, Drawing, Painting (watercolor), Desktop Publishing
San Francisco Art Institute	Various fine-art courses

Employment
San Francisco Chronicle Executive Director - Season of Sharing Fund Director - Special Projects	Started and managed the Season of Sharing Fund for the Chronicle. During the 16 years on the project, contributions exceeded $34 million. Director of The Chronicle Fourth of July Waterfront Festival, a one-day event that drew 200,000+ people to enjoy 36 acts on 6 stages spread over a 30-block area and culminating in one of the largest fireworks displays in America. Director of The Great Outdoors Adventure Fair, a three-day adventure travel exposition that was the first of its kind and which was subsequently copied in major U.S. cities. Proceeds funded student programs.

Software and Other Applications
HTML (raw coding) and CSS Dreamweaver Excel Fireworks Illustrator	Microsoft Office Photoshop InDesign Word PowerPoint

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