I'm an out gay guy living on Long Island, about 60 miles east of New York City.I'm interested in making new friends, and hopefully some day finding the right person to be my special friend and lover. I'm not into one-night stands or "hookups" as they seem to be called on AOL!

Until September 13, 2011 I worked for a large gas and electric company as an emergency preparedness engineer (whatever that is!). I took a "forced retirement" as part of a corporate reorganization,

By night, I'm photographer for a monthly magazine that covers the gay night clubs on Long Island and in NY City. The magazine is PM Entertainment. The club I like most in NY City is called The Web.

One of my main reasons for setting up this Flickr page is to the photos I've taken with the friends I've made at these places. It's so much simpler than trying to e-mail them!! I have a profile at MySpace as Alphonse_g and at Facebook

Just bought a Nikon D7000 with the 18-200 Nikor lens. Previously I used a Nikon D70, and before that Nikon 8008S and 6006 film cameras.

My other big interest besides photography include sailing and guys. On the sailing, I have a 27 foot boat, a model called an O'Day 272LE.

On the guys, I currently don't have one :-(