Gary L FriedmanGary L. Friedman is a professional photographer who has traveled the world with both film and digital cameras. He runs the stock image website www.FriedmanArchives.com, is associate editor of CameraCraft magazine in the UK, and gives highly-acclaimeddigital photography seminars worldwide for those who wish to improve their creative photography and learn the essentials in an intuitive manner. Before graduating to photography he was a rocket scientist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (you know, the ones who landed probes on Mars and sent robots like Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo, Pathfinder, Spirit, and Discovery to explore the outer solar system), where he patented the image authentication system used in high-end Canon, Nikon, and Sony cameras. He has been published in books, newspapers and magazines worldwide, and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records while in college (go ahead and search the FriedmanArchives.com website if you want to find out what he did to get included). Despite his mastery of the technical background, Mr. Friedman has an approachable and easy-going teaching style that makes his books a pleasure to read. You can read more about his background at https: //www.friedmanarchives.com/about/ . Read More Read Less