I was born in the Bronx and raised on the west side of New York City’s Greenwich Village. After I graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School, I attended Cornell University where I graduated with a B.S. and MEE degrees and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in geophysical exploration. After four years designing radar antennas, I worked at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (USA CRREL) in New Hampshire for 42 years, retiring in 2016. I used ground-penetrating radar (GPR) throughout most of my career to investigate permafrost, sediments, glaciers, and ice sheets. Consequently, I have been motivated to understand how their many awesome, fascinating, aesthetic, almost abstract, and often mathematically intractable structures, as revealed in my GPR images, evolved. In turn, this fascination led me to photograph these structures where and when possible. Since I retired, I have extended my interest in abstract-appearing structures to other topics including ice crystals, oil flows, and spider webs. As with radar waves and geology, these newer interests involve light interaction with smaller subjects. Most images on this site were selected for their abstract nature and for me, their beauty.

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