Ted's Greece photography

Hopefully, a letter will arrive today. Ted would like to travel again when he is released. We're not sure if his felony record will be a problem when entering certain countries. (Click photos to enlarge.)

Ted's Alaska photography

I spoke to Ted on the phone today and he said new blog entries will likely arrive in my mail tomorrow.

Ted would like to go back to college to study photography and English to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer/photographer. He has published some photos, but unfortunately, stacks of magazines which had been stored in our garage were burned. Ted used to have friends over and they sat outside our house around an outdoor fireplace. Many of the magazines that had his published photos were used by some of those friends to fuel the fire.

I tried to find some of his published photos by going through old computer files and honestly don't remember which were published and which were not.

So here is a sampling of some of Ted's photography which he took on a 10-day interior trip to Alaska. (The blog publishing site only allows five photos at once to be uploaded per entry.)An article about this trip can be found here.

Magazine model

I'm still waiting on new blog entries from Ted...

In 2002, I began freelancing for various magazines as a writer and photographer. Ted had the good fortune (or not – according to him) to be my model and appeared in several magazines, including several by Visit Florida, Florida Fish and Game, and other outdoor and travel publications.

Next: Ted’s published photography

How I first started writing

My mom owns a business doing mystery shoppings for cruise lines, hotels and restaurants. She has taken me on some of the assignments and taught me how to write about my experiences with the employees’ service and attitudes. We even saw some employees stealing.

I went with my mom on several of the cruise shoppings – to Italy, Greece, Mexico, the Caribbean and three times to Alaska.

At first, when I was much younger, I’d go just to keep her company – no one suspected that a lady with a kid would be checking up on them.

As I got older, I wrote some portions of the narrative reports. Kinda odd that I’m sorta now doing narrative reports on jail – and it makes it doubly hard to be in here. I wish I could instead be going on some more trips.

My mom was also an editor of an international travel magazine – until the financial backer died earlier this year. She’s written for a bunch of other magazines and she had me co-author an article in WaveLife back when I was 15. I got some of my photographs published in magazines too. She even had me join a writers’ organization as a student member.

Ever since I can remember, my mom’s been taking pictures of me. In some photos, I’m frowning - that’s because she’s already taken about 50 pictures of me. A few of the pictures have appeared in magazines such as Florida Game & Fish and the Official Florida Vacation Guide.

Sometimes I lie here and wonder what I’d be doing if I wasn’t in jail. I signed up for two college classes last year at St. Pete College, but didn’t finish them. I’d like to go back and study journalism and photography.

Photo: Me frowning in Santorini, Greece