Lake Life Images
Gary + Pat Braker—McHenry, Illinois
Gary here: When did it start? That love of photography has been with me a long time. I always wanted a decent camera, but couldn't afford one until Uncle Sam sent me overseas after I joined the Navy. I was sent to a ship that was home ported in Yokosuka Japan. this was in 1966. I had joined the year before but was sent to Mississippi to wait for a slot in ET-school "Electronics". So there I was in Japan and prices for cameras were reasonable since I could buy one with no sales tax and duty free since I had been to the combat zone "Viet Nam". Next thing you know I was the proud owner of a 35mm Minolta SRT-101. It served me well over the years, although I was strictly an amateur.
Pat here: I was brought up in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan. My father built our house on the shores of the St. Mary's river. I watched the giant ore ships pass the house every day and learned water skiing and ice skating as a youngster. After high school I moved to a suburb of Detroit and studied to become an RN and later worked in ICU in a large hospital.
Gary here: I worked for RCA, and got transferred to Michigan where I met Pat, and later I got transferred back to Illinois. I bought a house on a chain of lakes N/W of Chicago and Pat joined me about a year later. We got married on my old Chris-Craft cabin cruiser and we enjoyed the lake life. Later we moved to another house on the same lake and it was overlooking a marsh. The sunsets were epic and I started posting them to my Facebook page and everybody loved them.
Pat here: We decided to start a photography business and I got interested in photography as well, so we started going on photo shoots together and it was awesome. I got a camera with a terrific zoom lens and we became a real good team. If one couldn't get the shot the other one would.
Gary&Pat here: Now we are a team and want to share our work with you. Hope you like it, Look around, ask us questions if you want to. We think we have something to share with each of you. Track us on our blog, meet us at an event, we would love to share our art with you.
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