Lyle Hansen

My career as a photographer began more than sixty years ago in Seattle. Became a navy combat photographer during WWII under Edward Steichen's direction attached to Adm. Nimitz' staff. Postwar, I worked as an industrial photographer at the Boeing Company and became photo unit chief of the Seattle Division and later for the Aerospace Divison. Retired in 1979 to complete construction of a forty-foot sailboat. I took people on skippered cruises in the San Juan and B.C. Gulf islands for several years. Now an octogenarian, I spend my winters in San Diego and am using digital techniques to restore and preserve my collection of deteriorating wartime photos. Some of these can be seen on my website. The S.D. Photoshop User's Group has been a great help to me in learning digital imaging which I consider to be the greatest advance in photography since the daguerrotype.