I'm a VIP Who's Who famous man and celeb, John David Thomas, aka John Thomas, born March 30, 1951 in Indiana, USA, hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana...also lived in Phoenix, Arizona for 4 years in the 80s, and Seattle area (Mountlake Terrace, WA and Marysville, WA for almost 3 years, where I composed clasical music for churches at Edmonds United Methodist Church in the NW suburb of Seattle, known as Edmonds, Washington)...I am a lifelong and gifted serious photographer (have photographed most of the USA and western Canada, including many national parks (the famous ones) in USA and Canada (BANFF, Jasper, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Smokey Mountains, Mt. Ranier (in Washington state), Acadia (in Maine), and photographed all the famous places in New York City TWICE (in 1965 at age 14 and in 1977 during the "heat wave" of 104 degrees four days in a row there)...I have done about 8 major types of photography, which are listed on my PPA site here...I have owned about 8 cameras (including expensive ones: CONTAX cameras, ZEISS lenses ($ 800 lens, etc) and am experienced with using complex lighting scenarios and set ups including "on location"...also, very importantly, I am a very well rounded person in terms of my educational background, skills and talents, life background, super creative, cutting-edge, trend setter, super artistic and forward thinking, free spirited and independent, with unique ideas and concepts, with a super background in not only the arts and music and entertainment industry (played in famous rock bands for ten years (keyboaqrds) in Indiana and Arizona (JETSTREAM in Indianapolis, Kokomo, Indiana including concerts and major studio recording sessions for CDs and music for major radio airplay on world famous rock radio station WFBQ-FM Q95, winner of the Marconi Award for Best Rock Radio Station in the USA (about a year ago)...I'm a member of the top professional organizations in the USA in the fields of MUSIC and PHOTOGRAPHY...have been a member of NARAS (Grammy-awards organization as a full voting member fot the annual Grammy ballots), and also was member of Audio Engineering Society about 5 years...been member of Mensa (high IQ society for geniuses, etc) in Indianapolis and USA, since 1983...played contract bridge and chess most of my lifetime for fun....love social events and parties and love online dating and "the real thing" too....(see my personal friends site of about 1200 friends of mine, most of them in California on My Space at www.myspace.com/john1951usa and my music/band site there at: www.myspace.com/johndavidthomas1951...each site of mine there I have about 1200 friends or so including many famous celebrities and rock stars, singers, bands, and even actresses and actors, even Paris Hilton and Bill Gates (of Microsoft fame, richest man in the world now) and General Wesley Clark (who was considered to run for president of U.S. at one time)....and many hotties and models belong to my friends list also, and.you can also join me there, too....and request me to add you as my friend there, if you are on that site...it's free to join...see my many world famous and nationally famous celebrity friends there in my Top 24 photo display on my front profile page....people you know!!...also my music and band site on My Space has many celeb friends there also, including world famous rock and roll stars and bands, like Pink Floyd (legendary band of "Dark Side of the Moon" album, on the Top 200 Billboard charts for a record-setting 10 years)...and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, Sheena Easton, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, ABBA, Frank Zappa (now deceased, but his music and memory and influence lives on...I met him twice in Indianapolis and Indiana at VIP party in 1973 and talked with him, one on one "against the Wall" in a huge living room of a mega house on the northside of INDY, IN...and also in Bloomington, Indiana around 1981...I also met Alice Cooper, the world famous rock superstar of the 1970's and met Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Jean Luc Ponty, the famous electric jazz violinist and composer, with many CDs worldwide in the 70s and 80s, and also met famous classical conductors and composers like Arthur Fiedler (Boston Pops) and Garrick Ohlsen, international pianist and recording artist worldwide on Deutche Grammophone in Germany, etc...and been around Pierre Boulez (world famous avant garde composer and conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the past) and been around Olivier Messiaen, world famous composer also, of the 20th century from Paris, France (heard him live in concert at the piano with his genius pianist wife, Yvonne Loriod, around 1975 in Indianapolis, Indiana doing the MOST COMPLEX possible modern, super fast music on two pianos....I have recorded many CDs of my original music in many styles, from rock music, Top 40, disco rock, mood music, orchestral, jazz rock fusion, acid jazz/rock, progressive rock, love songs, avant garde, music designed for film or TV themes, piano music, improvisational major works (some 20 minutes in length, like "From Me to You", all of them on the internet at SOUNDCLICK.com (look me up in their search engine to find my link to my page "John David Thomas" or go direct to: www.soundclick.com/johndavidthomas also my music is on famous music site of Apple computer company, ITUNES.com site for people to purchase 99 cents per track and download onto their Apple IPODS (you have to go to the ISTORE tab section and go to search engine near bottom of page and go to ALBUM TITLE category search and enter my CD album titles to bring up my music to preview or buy....enter my CD titles: "Pathway to Love" and "Desires of the Heart" (solo piano easy listening) and "Early Songs and Jazz of John David Thomas" (my rock music and Top 40 and love songs and disco music and fusion, jazz rock, synth music, etc)....I've also been in world-famous recording studios in USA in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, Seattle and Phoenix, where bands such as PINK FLOYD recorded (part of "The Wall" soundtrack and CD) and Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix (his studio in New York, Electric Lady where all his real GOLD record albums are displayed on the wall, as of 1977)....and been to RCA Records Studio A in Chicago and also in Nashville (it was RCA in New York that "mastered" my 45rpm 7" single vinyl record in 1973 that had radio airplay and was mentioned in BILLBOARD and was on jukeboxes (the two songs were "Alabama D.A." and "So Hard, So Long", which I composed and arranged and played keyboards and sang vocals on)....so I have a double career, equally important and am equally gifted in both areas and with super lifelong backgrounds in both...played in classical orchestras for years when I was younger in Indiana....including Ball State Symphony Orchestra from 1971-1974, doing major classical repertoire by world famous composers like Igor Stravinsky and Beethoven, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov ("Scheherazade") and Berlioz, Roy Harris, Aaron Copland ("El Salon Mexico") and played in the cello choir and was in a string quartet long ago (pro)....back to the photography here....(I've been a budget analyst and management analyst for ten years in the past for a major DOD agency of 3500 people in Indianapolis, Indiana from 1974-1984, where the federal government and military used me for two months, full time, paid musician, graduate of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, 1976, lifelong photographer and owner/CEO of John David Thomas Productions and JDT Records and John David Thomas Photography, I've been told I am international and world famous by others...I'm progressive, artististic, futuristic, cutting-edge, "think outside the box", free spirit man, I am a bachelor, I have done many styles and types of photography, including photographing world famous rock stars in the past (Frank Zappa, etc) and I am a lifelong musician, composer, and former songwriter and "Indiana and Arizona rock star" for 10 years, with my own music on famous radio stations like WFBQ-FM in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA..I live in New York City in Brooklyn at the Garden of Eden in Bensonhurst area since August 19, 2009...I also lived almost 2 years in Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Santa Monica (S. CA.)....I am a member of PPA, ASCAP, Mensa, and Los Angeles World Affairs Council and have been a member of Audio Engineering Society and American Federation of Musicians Local # 47 in Hollywood, California and NARAS (The Recording Academy) which is in charge of the GRAMMY AWARDS...and other pro organizations...I am experienced in the following types of photography: fashion/models (personal and portfolio photos, events, photo shoots, etc), celeb/rock star/band photos, publicity photos, lingerie, scenic (all over USA and CANADA, including about 15 national parks in both countries such as Grand Canyon (AZ), Mt. Ranier (WA), BANFF (Canada), JASPER (Canada), Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Tetons, Smokey Mountains, ACADIA (Maine on coast), Redwood, Sequoia, and also national monuments such as DEVIL's TOWER Natl Monument in Moorcroft, Wyoming (featured in famous Spielberg movie) and BADLANDS in the Dakotas (north USA) and I've photographed most of the famous sites and places in New York City (in 1977 and 1965 at the end of the World's Fair) and New England (NE USA) and California, I've photographed many candid and formal portraits of many high class and normal everyday people (photojournalism) such as the festivals in Indianapolis, Indiana and the 500 Mile Race and 500 time trials and qualifications, the National Drag Race in Clermont, Indiana, beauty queens, models, boudoir photos, artistic nudes, weddings, concerts, sports events (NBA basketball games, NFL football games), nature shots, landscape, events, festivals, birthday parties, anniversary events, dinners, musicians, night clubs, publicity photos, passport photos, commercial photography and industrial photography, product shots for future advertising, avant garde and serious art photography, photography of major and famous recording studios such as Electric Lady Studio in New York City (Jimi Hendrix's own recording studio, still there), Vintage Recorders. See my WHO's WHO bio at: www.marquiswhoswho.net/johndavidthomas