Tony Padgett:  

There is a lot to tell. A good portion of my life is only for a few select people to know. Basically, I got out of high school, did a term in the air force, then kinda wasted the next 15 years of my life being kind of a loser. It was because of a great loss I had at the tender age of 16. Anyway, after that dark period, I started getting my life together. I became a pretty good guy. I got a decent job, started my own car club, and used it to hold charity car shows every year. I still do that to this day. I missed the 2011 season because I was in the hospital getting a liver transplant. 13 years ago I met my beautiful wife, on AOL of all places. I had just published a new collection of Gothic poetry and my wife was one of the 6 people in the country who actually read it. I was on AOL talking about the poems, and she popped in the room. We started talking, and kept talking and writing for thee months (real paper letter too!) anyway we fell in love. We had never even seen each other. Finally on a labor day, I flew out o Orlando from LA to meet her in person. Two months later she moved to LA. This past October we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. Sadly I was in the hospital, but we got the hospital chaplain to come to my room and we renewed our vows!. Well jumping back a bit, 8 years ago we moved to Phoenix because my wife got a fantastic job offer with an ungodly salary! I gave up my computer career to become a photographer. With the help of world famous pin-up/hot rod photographer Roy Varga, I broke in to the same line. My work has been in several hot rod magazines. Once I heal up some more from my t...Expand for more