The author became interested in photography since high school. After completing his photographic studies at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA he traveled throughout the US photographing dance and ballet companies for 10 years. Later he opened and operated a photo studio at the corner of Hollywood & Vine for 15 years. With a second degree in Information Management, he has combined photography and computers into teaching digital graphics and web design at community colleges. He is now working on a second book dealing with inventions that have changed the world but no one knows or remembers the inventors.