Chuck grew up in New York and spent the better part of his first 5 years on his Grandparents farm near Cold Spring where he developed a love for nature.  That interest continued all through High School in Peekskill and while an undergraduate at Syracuse University.  He started taking pictures seriously while a student in graduate school in Michigan.  His father had purchased his first Nikon SLR camera so he could take pictures through a microscope for his thesis.  It was just a matter of time before he took it off the microscope and pointed it in other directions.  Early on, and through his first academic position, his favorite place to photograph was in the North woods of Michigan near his wife's family cottage in Lewiston.  In 1983 he moved to Arizona to take a faculty position at the University of Arizona.  New photographic horizons opened, but the rigors of maintaining a very active research program put photography on the back burner.  In 1993, at the urging of his wife, they took a vacation that was not tied to attending a scientific meeting.  That trip to Alaska renewed his passion for photography and he has never looked back.  Until 2005, all of his photos were taken on film.  His first venture with a DSLR camera was on a trip to Peru with friends where he had been doing research for 30 years.  He has visited all 7 continents and is still looking for new photo ventures now that he has retired.  His primary interest is in nature, but landscape, historic, architectural,  and archaeological photography has also come into focus.  His go to cameras are a Nikon D4 and D500 with an assortment of lenses.

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