I taught art in high school after receiving my Master's in Art and Art Education. I have been a professional photographer since 1971, and I have been published and have had assignments by National Geographic, the Smithsonian, the American Museum Natural History, the Encyc Brit, Americana, the US Dept of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife, Adventure Travel, and World Wildlife Fed.

In my personal life, I climbed summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1972. And I lectured at the American Museum of Natural...