I was a research scientist for more than three decades, mostly as a Principal Investigator responsible for developing and directing studies of the eye & visual system in neuroscience and ophthalmology settings.  After leaving the laboratory I continued to serve in related professional capacities (e.g., as a journal Reviewing Editor) for an additional decade.   My research projects spanned basic and clinical subject areas, and indeed, some of my projects served to bridge disciplines – such as visual perception and breast cancer survivorship – that historically had been regarded as entirely separate entities.   I moved to Portland in the early 1980s partly because of the ready access to nature, and I did a fair amount of black & white film photography until increased demands on my time led me to abandon the darkroom.  Thus, I am glad now to be able to return to photography, but this time using digital techniques and working in color.   There is a bit of full-circle irony here, in that the work for my PhD dissertation (during the Carter administration) addressed issues important for human color vision.   Moreover, whereas my earliest clinical research projects expressly concerned age-related visual change, a central theme of my recent book – entitled “71 Photos: Views through a Septuagenarian Lens” – centers around aging and the passage of time.   My book also explores relations between science and art, in part from a visual-science perspective.