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				Title:Heavy Lifting
				 
				Georgia Power employee and Spirit of Safety winner. This photo was taken for a safety award to acknowledge an employee heroics after an accident or emergency during the year, wherever it happen. 
				
  
				
								   
									Biography:
					I grew up on the east coast of the United States taking pictures from age five with my brownie camera. My family moved back to Atlanta, Georgia for the third time in 1977 to East Cobb County where I attended high school at George Walton High School.  After graduating I enrolled in college at the Art Institute of Atlanta.  I graduated with a degree in Photography in 1984.  After graduation I worked as a freelance assistant in Atlanta until I began working for Charley Akers Photography.  I continued to develop my photography skills with them over the next five years.  Charley Akers and I are...							 |