I am a mathematician by education with an AB from Chicago and an MS and PhD from U Mass. My research was in an area known as differential geometry and many of my pictures have a photo-geometric look. I also have worked in industry and owned a consulting business. Our travels took us to Europe, including Barcelona, Toulouse, Crete, Gran Canaria and Paris. In 2005 my partner Susan Chandler, an exceptional photographer also in Black and White, and I were invited to a conference in Tomsk, Russia (in Siberia 1,000 miles east of Moscow). My Leica M6 came with me...more