I am a husband, photographer, blogger, kite flyer, and Squarespace Forum Community Moderator.

**Myself and Diane, the love of my life and my best friend. Picture taken by Donna Ricks**

“I love to listen to music as much as I can including the sounds of Frank Sinatra, Annie Lennox, the Moody Blues, and others. I have viewed It’s a Wonderful Life more times than I can remember. I have a Disney wristwatch collection. I prefer windup or automatics. I randomly have bouts of insomnia and like W.C. Fields, I sleep best with gentle rain falling on the roof. I like quiet mornings while watching the sun come up. My wife Diane introduced me to a cup of fresh ground coffee in the morning, my son introduced me to coffee-flavored craft beer. Now I enjoy both. I don’t like the smell of carnations, it makes me think of funerals. Diane and I lived full-time in our 39-foot motor home which we sold. Now we live in a 90-year-old farmhouse. She and I met in high school, our first date was the senior prom. That same summer while picnicking under a tree in Williamsburg, she initiated the sexiest kiss I ever had in my short life... I married her fifteen months later. We have three children who we are very proud of. Between them they have provided us with very special adult friends, a granddaughter and five grand sons. I am a needy person, so I pray constantly, which means I think about God and Jesus a lot, still I don’t think about them enough. ”

— Derrick Lee Parker

My view of Photography has not changed much over the years, well maybe like me, it has a little.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my random views of the world around me. If you have any questions or comments about anything you have seen or read here, please feel free to let me know. I promise you will hear from me in return! Derrick

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still”

— Dorothea Lange

“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”

— Zadie Smith