Tom Wehde:  

I am in Bixby, Oklahoma which is a burb of Tulsa. Diane and I have lived together since 1987. In 1982 I had moved back to Southport to ride the train into New York every day to start a New York based studio on the upper East side. I shot models for The Ford Model Agency for a financial base to springboard off into the Advertising Markets. After about 6 months of riding the train and hating it and the last thing I wanted was to live "in the city" I answered a job listing from my alumni job placement services from RIT and was flown out to Tulsa to be romanced by Hood,Hope & Asociates which at the time was Oklahomas largest Ad Agency with about 85 employees. They needed a staff photographer to shoot Oil rigs from helicopters,Product photography of Zebco Rods & Reels and my favorite, Boat catalogs!! They moved me out here in '82, promised me the world, and laid me off with 15 other people two years later. The economy went bust and they eventually went under. This really was a blessing in disquise as what I now had was a great diversified porfolio to call on all their old clients. Many of the art directors that got canned with me went...Expand for more