i learned photography as a teenager. in college i messed around in the darkroom for several years. gradually, pressure of work and time constraint reduced my photography to little more than occasional snapshots. as digital cameras began to increase in sophistication and decrease in price, i began to once again view photography as a more serious pursuit. i have the good fortune to travel to many different countries and i have begun to deliberately combine speaking engagements with opportunities to capture the motion i study in tmy research through a different lens, so to speak! i use canon and leica cameras with a variety of lenses and frequently post my work on photo-criticism sites to try to learn more about my craft. i seldom use flash and seldom carry a tripod. often my work is blurry and rough, but so is the life and movement i am trying to capture. Most recently I have come to depend on the camera in my pocket in addition to my more traditional ones.