Profile: David Leeson

Personal background
I have been a photojournalist for 25 years and currently work as a staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News in Dallas, Texas, USA. I also have a fairly large nature web site at www.fieldandforest.com and have completed two video documentaries in the last year as I slowly transform from still photographer to filmmaker.

It seems that almost anyone my age (born in 1957) would be interested in all things space related having grown up during the early days of space exploration. I remember watching the first step on the moon on a black and white TV and read about John Glenn's historic journey in the Weekly Reader at school. But mostly I remember the stars over my head when I was young. I grew up in a fairly small west Texas town in the days before light pollution stole that majestic view which spawed so many early dreams.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Surely if one only considers the amazing times of technological change and transformation and its profound impact on our lives and cultures then one would have to learn at least one thing for certain; few things are certain but the laws of nature and physics. We can know our personal faith, we can know specifics of the laws of nature and depend upon these basic elements of existence to guide us in thought and practice. Beyond that is the great beyond.

If so ... then we live in an age where sound ideas and principles of science give promise for greater knowledge of not only what we know today but what we will know tomorrow.

Thus, through this premise I support an endeavor like SETI and enjoy the fact that I can offer some possible contribution. Besides - it's a great screen saver, it's free and what else is my PC going to do worthwhile while I'm sleeping?

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