William Webb:  

Even though my family moved to Amherst, NY in the middle of my junior year at Claymont, I still consider my roots to be at CHS. We moved back to Delaware in 1963. I attended the University of Baltimore, then did a turnaround, went to photography school, and pursued a career in photography. I married Janis Hotmer (Mount Pleasant, 1965) in 1971. We are still happily married, living in Hockessin, Delaware. No children. We have two feral cats that adopted us, and now live indoors. I worked at two commercial photography studios, doing advertising photography for 5 years. I then had the opportunity to work with Ansel Adams one summer, submitted a portfolio, and was accepted. I quit work, went to Yosemite to study with Ansel, and then became a free-lance photographer, working through stock agencies. I retired in 2007. Since then, I have concentrated mostly on HD digital video as well as editing and converting/archiving many years' worth of negatives and transparencies to digital. Janis retired from DuPont in 2009 after a long, amazing career. She now teaches at Tulaa Yoga Studio on Naaman's road in her spare time. Janis and I have been very fortunate, and have been able to travel to almost every National Park in the U.S. We have always been outdoor adventure enthusiasts and have backpacked probably hundreds of miles, each carrying 30 to 40 lbs. of camera gear, as well as food and camping equipment. We've been to Alaska twice, hiked throughout Denali National Park, flown in a 1947 De Havilland Beaver float plane (the same plane used by Timothy Treadwell for "Grizzly Diaries", but with a different pilot) to visit 1000-lb. Kodiak brown bears up close and personal in the Kodiak Island back country. Three days into this trip, 75 miles into Denali NP, I slipped and broke my leg while hiking down a steep, frozen incline to photograph some grizzly bears. It wasn't until two weeks later, many hopping around...Expand for more