Daniel Ray Norris
 daniel@norris.net • tel. 910.232.0604

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A born and raised native of Wilmington, NC and the surrounding area, my existence started when Edward Teach (Blackbeard) would terrorize our coast with his beard ablaze and his cannons loaded.... Aside from being a great great great great great grandson of Edward Teach and having an insatiable desire to fire a cannon upon unsuspecting boaters - my life began as a boy growing up in Teachey, NC (Duplin County) and Carolina Beach.

When I was 9 years old, my daddy bought me a complete Nikon F2 system - with all the bells and whistles. At the time, this was a professional level camera and not generally found in the hands of a child. I took thousands of photographs - much to the delight of our local drug store's photo processing lab. My interest in photography never waned. Today, I use digital and the Mac for everything. But that F2 still sits on my shelf as a reminder of those simpler times. Now I say "Analog sucks and Digital rules!" But Ahhh, those were the days.....

I attended Harrells Christian Academy (Sampson County) from Kindergarten through 12th grade. I have a BS in Marine Biology from UNCW and a MS in Biology/Ecology from the University of Guam. I went to school in Guam for 4 years - coming home every Christmas and summer. My capabilities as a graphic designer developed while I pursued a career in biology. Many of my friends in Guam are artists or designers and their guidance and encouragement further sparked this interest. I truly enjoyed my time spent in Guam but there is no place like being home in North Carolina.

I was the Commercial Production Manager & Webmaster for WECT TV-6 for 7 years and I am now a Biology instructor at a local college and have started a publishing company - SlapDash Publishing, LLC. I love to fish offshore, collect Macintosh computers, ride my BMW motorcycles and play with my three Jack Russell terriers, Yuki, Hana and Elvis. Arrrrrr!

An " off the wall " request
The heading says it all... Get it? Oh, nevermind.
I am always on the look out for old ads, images, artifacts and so on. Recently, I have been hankerin' for a few good photographs from the old-ish skating rink on Oleander Drive in Wilmington - SportsWorld. Back in the 1970s, I spent many an evening there skating, playing video games, listening to disco music and enjoying all that blue shag carpet on the walls. If you have any decent photos of SportsWorld - I would love to borrow them. Especially of the inside - people "shootin' the duck", roller dancing or disco dancing. I'd give them right back and you would have my undying appreciation. I even had those goofy lights you could snap to the bottom of your skates.


And while I am at it
If you have any old photos you wouldn't mind lending out to me and letting me display, I would gladly come get them and scan them for use here. Things that would be cool are good images of local stuff, interesting landmarks and really anything that would be better served by letting other people enjoy them on the web. Shoe boxes and dusty photo albums are no place to keep these photographs. Mold, rats and hurricanes are our enemy. Photographs also fade with time - but if they are scanned, they become immortal. I'm pretty spiffy looking in that clip-on tie.

 

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