Photography is my second career, but my first love. I started photographing at the age of eight, when my father gave me his old Brownie camera. I studied commercial photography at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver, and after a university teaching career made photography my full-time profession. Now I share the amazing beauty and many splendors of our amazing planet through photography and digital art images. I hope that my work has some small impact on attitudes and behaviors related to preserving the biodiversity and beauty of our only home...this planet...more