Derek Doeffinger started writing, editing, conceiving, photographing, and marketing Kodak photo books when film SLRs were the rage back in the 1980s. When Kodak started down the digital photography path in the early 1990s, be joined their digital imaging division and participated in the launch of Kodak's first consumer digital camera. He's been participating in digital photography for over fifteen years now. In recent years, in addition to writing about digital photography, be has also written and photographed several regional photo books about upstate New York.