I'm a retired software engineer living mostly in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. My avocation is photography which I have been pursuing since I can remember. My grandfather was a naturalist who did all of his own photographic processing in his basement darkroom. Both my father and my grandfather introduced me to the basics of photography and the darkroom. I closed up my last darkroom in 2003 and have been mostly Digital since then. I still have two Nikon film cameras and a film scanner and shoot film when I get the urge. I mostly like the look and feel of Black & White film which is hard to duplicate digitally.

I have been married since 1971 and have 2 children who are now in their 30's. My son is a graphic artist/photographer living in Mexico with his wife and our first grandson. My daughter is a photographer specializing in wedding photography and who also lives near us in Mexico.

I am a lifelong Buddhist (a Recovering Catholic) with a deep interest in Chinese Ch'an and Japanese Zen Buddhism as well as The Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.



Note on my icon: it is a pre-columbian artifact that was found when they were excavating to build our house in Mexico.

My map of places I've travelled in the world.



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or write about it on the open travel guide


Blog sites
Random Thoughts
waywuwei.wordpress.com/
Mexico Website
on the edge
Philosophical/Political
thenatureofmind
Photography
Luz Y Oscuro