Gary L. Friedman is a professional photographer who has traveled the world with his cameras. He runs the stock image website www.FriedmanArchives.com, hosts photographic expeditions worldwide, and also travels the United States giving seminars on digital photography. 

Before graduating to photography he was a rocket scientist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he patented the image authentication system now used in the Canon EOS-1n. 

He has been published in newspapers and magazines worldwide, and had also been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records while in college (search the FriedmanArchives.com website if you want to find out what he did to get included).