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Aubrey Cruse III (Acruseiii@aol.com)

I was born in 1939. That was close enough to the Great Depression to grow up learning to appreciate everything that was on your plate. Also, it was at the beginning of WWII.

I was married after high school and Judy and I have 3 sons, and 5 grandchildren.

My work career was all at one pulp and fine paper manufacturing site owned first by Champion Papers and then by Simpson Papers. My work there covered forty years all on the location where my great grandfather operated a farm before the land was bought for the mill site, and a little prior to that, Santa Anna was captured while escaping after the battle of San Jacinto.

After retiring in February of 1999 at 59, I began trying to understand one of the rules of Peter Senge' in his "5th Discipline," I am not my job. I taught some at San Jacinto College North and South campuses. In 2002, I enrolled at UHCL to complete my degree graduating Summa Cum Laude with a BBA in Business Management. I must say that an elective in Drawing for Non-Art Majors was a highlight of that experience.

I have been interested in photography since the early 1950s. During the late '80s and early '90s I spent a considerable amount of liesure time pushing oil around canvas at first and then linen enjoying both portraits from models and plein-air landscapes.

In June of 2008, a friend of mine introduced me to bird photography and I have become a lifelong learner and lover ever since. I have even tried to introduce several of my grandsons to the art.