Charlotte Richardson is a serious amateur underwater, wildlife, and landscape photographer who enjoys occasional forays into aerial photography. Her work has been published in the United States, Germany, and Japan. She relishes traveling and photographing in the arctic, the Antarctic, eastern and southern Africa, and the tropical western Pacific. Her other hobbies include amateur radio (she holds US amateur extra class license KQ1F) and Balkan folk dancing, both of which she also photographs. She is a frequent lecturer at photography, amateur radio, and scuba diving conventions. In real life Charlotte writes fault-tolerant linux device driver software.