I have to admit that I did not keep nearly as good a photographic record of my life after my mission as I did before.  What little I do have comes from old ID cards and a few pictures taken by kind friends who slipped me a print now and then.  I have come to regret not taking more pictures, but there's not much I can do about it now.   This regret has, however, morphed into a budding interest in photography (I suppose it's all part of my ongoing mid-life crisis).  Specifically, I have become interested in the practice of daguerreotypy - (the oldest form of photography, I believe) and I have been collecting old cameras and equipment while teaching myself the technique.  If I ever get things to work, I'll post a few daguerreotypes.  In the meantime, savor my pathetic collection of old photos.

ID card from graduate school (Fall, 1983).  I have removed some of the official markings from the picture, but I'm still probably breaking all kinds of state and federal laws by copying it.  I wonder what prison is like?

Social gathering at my research advisor's house (Fall, 1983 I believe).

Group picture from the same gathering.  I am 2nd from left on back row and my research advisor (Dr. Roger Willett) is 2nd from the right on the back row.  Here is yet another group of people that I have totally lost contact with.  I am SO proud.

"Santa,  I want a degree".  Pullman, WA Young Adult Christmas party, 1984.

I have left out a few pictures from the late eighties and early nineties.  This was a very traumatic time for me, as I was struggling to finish my Ph.D and embarking on a shaky postgraduate career.  I'm embarrassed to post these pictures; I just look too scary.  During this time in my life, though, I was frequently stopped by strangers and told that I looked exactly like Stephen King.  So find a picture of Stephen King and I suppose that you will have a reasonable facsimile of me during this time.

Faculty ID (circa 1995), although still looking young enough to pass for a student.  Occasionally, after first arriving at Southeast Missouri State, I would find myself being treated like crap by various bureaucrats and service people.   That is until I handed them my ID and they would apologize, "Oh I'm sorry, I thought you were a student!".

Holding the two Black Lab puppies I raised.  This picture was taken in early October, 1998 when the puppies were just a little over 10 days old (their eyes hadn't opened yet).  Their mother had a litter of 11, then became gravely ill and couldn't care for her puppies.  I took these two little guys in and bottle fed them for a month.  In the process, I became so attached to them we couldn't give them back, once they were weaned, and ended up keeping them.  I wanted to give them unique names, so (and I'm truly very, very sorry about this, guys) I named them Ashkii and Bidziil. Select this link to see a web page with a recent picture of the dogs.

Passport photo from July, 1999.  Kind of heading back into Stephen King territory...

Went on a rare, non-working vacation this summer and actually got lots of photos of me for a change.  This was an "Elvis Vacation" taken by a dedicated fan desperate to pay tribute to the King.  However, I don't want to force anybody to actually look at my boring vacation pictures.    But if you really want to satisfy your prurient interest in my exciting Elvis Vacation, then click on the picture of Graceland to the left to transport yourself to a new page.  A page where you can experience the Many Moods of Marcus (let's see, arms akimbo, arms folded, and hands in pockets -- I think that about covers all of the moods).

Here's a link to the Web cam I set up in my X-ray diffractometer laboratory.  If you are lucky, you might catch me walking around in there.  This link should be good for about 55 minutes of video, which is probably more than anyone can stomach.  But hit reload if nothing seems to be changing.  (Only works in Netscape!) This will start a new video feed.