About the Photographer
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I grew
up next to the ocean in Bermuda, moved with my family to Virginia, and
attended schools there and in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Massachusetts. I
spent sixteen months in Vietnam during the war as part of my Army service.
I worked as a volunteer in the Paleontol-
ogy lab at the La Brea Tar Pits museum for 25 years. I participated in researching wild orangutans during three Earthwatch projects in Indonesian Borneo, and then was a tour guide at the Los Angeles Zoo for six years. I have traveled to and done extensive photography in such places as Chile and Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Big Island of Hawaii, most of Western Europe, and the North Pole (which I visited on the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal in 1994). I have been studying the native vegetation of southern California for about fifteen years, and have also botanized in Virginia, Death Valley and the eastern Sierras. I have taken many classes, dozens of field trips with botanists from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, the Santa Barbara Botanic Gar-
den, the Joshua Tree Institute, the Jepson Herbarium, CNPS, and UC Riverside, and some hundreds of field trips on my own all over southern California. I am a long-time fan of science fiction, Firesign Theater, travel writing, Russian history, Bob and Ray, bluegrass music, W.C. Fields, mystery novels and all things Irish. I am married to a TV comedy writer and I have a daughter who is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. who is now working at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. We also have two basset hounds named Mamie and Pearl and a bichon frisé named Henry.
ogy lab at the La Brea Tar Pits museum for 25 years. I participated in researching wild orangutans during three Earthwatch projects in Indonesian Borneo, and then was a tour guide at the Los Angeles Zoo for six years. I have traveled to and done extensive photography in such places as Chile and Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Big Island of Hawaii, most of Western Europe, and the North Pole (which I visited on the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal in 1994). I have been studying the native vegetation of southern California for about fifteen years, and have also botanized in Virginia, Death Valley and the eastern Sierras. I have taken many classes, dozens of field trips with botanists from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, the Santa Barbara Botanic Gar-
den, the Joshua Tree Institute, the Jepson Herbarium, CNPS, and UC Riverside, and some hundreds of field trips on my own all over southern California. I am a long-time fan of science fiction, Firesign Theater, travel writing, Russian history, Bob and Ray, bluegrass music, W.C. Fields, mystery novels and all things Irish. I am married to a TV comedy writer and I have a daughter who is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. who is now working at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. We also have two basset hounds named Mamie and Pearl and a bichon frisé named Henry.
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