danpeak.com is part crash course in node.js and javascript and my personal website showcasing my photos since retiring from The Kansas City Star. I have written 'code' off and on since a program class back in my uni days. If you are interested in these things, the site lives on Amazon AWS. I used node.js framework as mainly an API server and javscript on the client side. I use justified-layout module from Flickr to build the photo grids.

I spent 20+ years as a staff photographer/editor at the Hays Daily News and The Kansas City Star photographing everything from the Hays Garden Club give away to three World Series. The last 20 years spent in Interactive from building The Star's first website to managing the content of five midwest newspaper websites for Knight Ridder Digital.

I worked for a newspaper since I was in my early teens. First, at the Stafford Courier, a weekly where I was chief grunt doing everything ever one else didn't want to do. After that a stint with the Great Bend Tribune, Grass and Grain, an agri publication. While at the Courier I took my first photo with Kodak 620 and from there, as they say, is history. I got a job at the KState Collegian after pitching a story on a old Russian that worked at the Hermitage Museum and left Russia with be with relatives.

When the internet started to take off, I taked with my bosses about building a Kansas City Star website. Most weren't interested. No revenue prospects. But eventually, The Star couldn't ignore the future. I was asked to lead a team of developers, editors and writers to build The Star website. The Star launched it website on Jan 1996, a few weeks after the New York Times. I spent nearly 20 years in Interactive for The Star, Knight Ridder Interactive and McClatchy Interactive.

Which bring me to retirment. From corporate where an industry struggled to find its way in an world where the rules change, at the time seemed like overnight, I found my way back to the one constant since I picked up that Kodak so many years ago, photography.