I received my education at Antioch College, USA; at the University of Leeds, UK (history, modern Chinese); and at the University of Besancon in France (language). I have traveled and lived for extended periods in many parts of North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. In September of 1992 I visited the geothermal and bear preserves of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia.

Over the years, I have held a diversity of employment. As a student, I sold photographic equipment in New York City, worked for the Associated Press in the Senate press gallery in Washington, D.C., as an operating room technician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and on a Bureau of Public Roads survey crew near Taos, New Mexico. Later, I held a variety of other employments in different places in the world. Notably, I was headmaster of a Shite Muslim Indian School in Kampala, Uganda. Later, I was a chief muralist at Stone's Photoreprographics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I've worked in a saw mill in rural Montana prior to my 30 year experience as winterkeeper in the heart of Yellowstone National Park.

On November 23, 1992, I gave a lecture on Yellowstone before an audience of 650 members of the Royal Geographical Society in London, England. The Society’s list of speakers for the autumn series, the series in which the lecture was included, featured Paul Theroux, Richard Leaky, Thor Heyerdahl, David Bellamy, and Jonathan Porritt, among others.

My reason for creating this site is that I want to share my ideas, my photographs and a part of my life with a variety of audiences.