Charles Porter MD is an American photographer whose life in photography started in 1977 when he began medical school at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He learned film developing, black and white photo printing, and basic page layout techniques as a member of the KUMC medical school yearbook staff. His primary interests in fine art photography center upon landscape, both natural and urban, and street candid portraits, all with the hope of capturing scenes and people with both distinctive regional traits and commonalities of humanity. His transient acquisitions of travelers’ vocabularies in Spanish, French, Italian and Turkish have helped him to engage complete strangers, where even brief interpersonal exchanges can enhance the results for American photographers working far from home. Charles continued six years of postgraduate clinical training and began practicing cardiology in 1983. This left limited time for a formal photography education but allowed opportunities for outdoor landscape and street candid photography in the Midwest and travels beyond. Married in 1980, the eternal patience and support for his photography from his wife, Susan Smith Porter MD, has been the foundation of his life in photography and in everything else as well. He thanks outstanding Kansas City photographers Brud Jones, Shari Hartbauer, and Kevin Sink for their patient guidance in helping him transition to digital photography during a 2008 photo expedition to Bhutan. A decade of mentorship by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Dan White in photo composition, digital image management and printing has been the most significant component of his education in critical thinking and advanced techniques in digital photography and printing. After five years of producing no prints for exhibition, Dan White’s training provided Charles the expertise required to print exhibition quality images on a large format printer in his private photographic workshop in Kansas City. Charles continues his life in photography and as a cardiologist at the University of Kansas Hospital where he founded and is now medical director of the Cardio-Oncology program with no clears plans to leave either field in the foreseeable future.