Home Town: Eureka, CA; born and raised in Portland, OR

Educational Background: B.S. Chemistry, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1970; Universität Tübingen, West Germany, 1967-68; Graduate Chemistry Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1971.

Career Highlights: During college co-operative work-study and after graduation, I did research in photographic chemistry at Tektronix and American Photographic Equipment Company, along with photography for a year with Sweden’s largest publishing company in Stockholm; also worked with television and media communications in the 70’s moving from photography into computers, resulting in my own consulting business, Datamaster, in 1976. Data processing clients included Hewlett-Packard, Monsanto, and Burroughs Corporation, with many local North Coast California clients in applications software development, technical writing, conversion support, and training.

Photography has become a major involvement again, with aerial, commercial and fine art projects. For the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District, I recently photographed the length of the Mad River from the air, integrating the images into a resource database of 300 on-line photos. For Humboldt State University in 1999-2000, I photographed almost 3000 aerial stereo images for their accuracy assessment of a 42 million acre mapping project. The US Army Corp of Engineers has licensed many of my coastal photographs for research and technical articles.

The business of computers and photography are growing closer together, and the prospects for future work in digital imaging projects are blending two past careers into an exciting new one.

Memberships: Photographer with the Coast Guard Artist Program; Rotary - Youth Exchange Chairman and past board member; Leica Historical Society of America, board member; founder of Redwood Soaring Association

Hobbies, Other: Remote control airplanes, literature, travel; fluent in German and Swedish.