Author, artist, graphics designer, and professional photographer, Tim Lee was born in 1949. Painlessly assimilated into a typical military family, he decided to play hooky and go fishing while attending day-2 of kindergarten in Yokohama, Japan. Fifty-something years later, Tim is still looking for ways to go fishing.

After teaching photography at Virginia's Tidewater Community College and graduating from Old Dominion University, Tim launched a career in television: news cameraman, editor, writer, PM Magazine story producer, creative services and research director, senior planner for Arbitron Television Ratings, and finally -- a programmer. Tim now lives on Lake Gaston, North Carolina as a more or less retired freelance technical writer, painter, graphics designer, Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald The Lake Magazine writer-photographer, and -- for the past ten years -- daily columnist for the Recipe du Jour family of Ezines, where he’s better known as "Simply Tim".

If you live in or visit the Lake Gaston area frequently, many of you already know Tim through his work in the Roanoke Rapids The Lake Magazine and elsewhere, where he's produced many covers, Parting Shots, and articles throughout the years. Many of these recognizable photographs have already been transformed (or soon will be) into some of the posters you will discover on this site.