Thanks to heroprotagonist for starting this MEME....

 Influences are always an interesting thing to ponder, since everything we see or hear conciously or not, becomes part of our mental resources. So, in this post I certainly don't intend to list everything I've ever read, and I'm sure my accuracy of true influeneces will not be very exacting. But, alas, I can only give a general outline of what I THINK my influenecs are, regardless of what actually happened in my development as an image maker. So let's get this trip down memory lane started....