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Virgil C. Robinson was born and reared in Houston, Texas where he graduated from S. P. Waltrip High School and attended Sam Houston State University and the University of Houston. He has always harbored a passion for architecture and the arts, including photography and music and. He is a self taught photogapher and enjoys exploring new ways to shot and present Houston's historic sites and buildings from behind the camera lens. His work has benn published in on-line magazines and local newspapers. "I want people to see my photographs of Houston 100 years from now and get a sense and of how the city looked and how the people felt about themselves and the region along the upper Texas Gulf Coast". Virgil is a third generation Houstonion and is proud of his family's heritage and contribution to the city's growth and developement. He watched a sleepy town of 300,000 grow into the nation's 4th largest city. His father owned a concret constructionto company and he that afforded him a first hand chance to witness and experience the development and growth of the Houston area. That also kindled his interest and love for architecture and he utilizes this background to create a mosiac of diverse and colorful photos of historic and inovative architecture in the Houston area.