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About Me
My name is Kirby Collins and I'm a web designer, photographer and write well enough to encourage someone to visit the many places I write about. My passion is traveling and taking photos. I'm blessed to be able to do what I love with the help of my beautiful wife Beverly, she makes sure I don't get lost along the way. Most of my photos are of places in Florida, I have an appreciation of Florida's unique culture, diversity and environment.
I have many passions like technology, history, pop culture, progressive politics, tropical drinks and fresh seafood. I spent most of my youth sport fishing and hunting in Florida, and I want to help preserve the earth for generations to come. I currently live on Cocoa Beach and own a network of travel websites that I've designed and maintain, life is good. Street CredIn the early 90s, when the Internet still young, I was using the Internet to help friends sell real estate and hotel rooms. In 1996, I put my talents to serious use with EW Scripps, a print and broadcast media company that subsequently received the Newspaper Association of America's Digital Edge Award for Best Online Newspaper. Subsequently, I became a Website Manager for Primedia, a magazine publishing company, and Website Consultant for a successful dot-com start-up. My last gig was at CCAFS on Cape Canaveral where I designed, managed and maintained a large portal with the responsibility for over 250,000 pages and 50 site administrators. I've also designed portals used by NASA and other government agencies. While working for the US Air Force, I supported launches for the Atlas, Delta and Titan programs. My mission also included occasionally supporting the Space Shuttle and NASA during my nine years at the Cape. Working at the Cape was a terrific experience. To be able to watch a rocket or shuttle leave the ground in an awesome display of fire and smoke, so close the sound would move through you as the ground shook, it's one of man's greatest accomplishments and something I'm lucky to have witnessed. I've lived on Florida's east coast for over forty years and loved it, I've made a lot of friends here and hope it lasts another forty :) |