I bought my first camera as a high school student in Pennsylvania, then majored in photography at Bennington College and the San Francisco Art Institute. I was fortunate enough to study further with Eugene Smith at the International Center of Photography in New York and spent several years as a stringer for Black Star Publishing. I took many extended hiking trips, photographing with film in remote mountain areas of Nepal, India, Afghanistan and Tibet in the 1970’s, until the traveling life wore thin and led me to pursue a settled family life in Maine.  After a career as an architect, I am now retired and have returned to experience the new world of digital black and white fine art photography.