Berkley Artist/Photographer Ron Meyer grew up on Detroit's west side in a family that loved the out of doors and rescued injured and orphaned wild animals rehabilitating and releasing them. Diana, his wife, is the daughter of a veterinarian. Their youngest daughter Christie, became a volunteer working with injured wild life when she was 17. Now she has a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Michigan State University. Meyer has been a photographer since 1963. His first professional work was when he was just thirteen years old shooting weddings and working for Copy Craft Inc. At sixteen he was hired into the Detroit Suburban Newspaper chain as a photographers' assistant. By the time he was eighteen he was manager of the photographic department. Later he worked for the Federal Government traveling with the Apollo 15 astronauts and with President Richard Nixon as a photographer in the security section. In the early 70's the Meyer's decided to settle in Berkley and opened a records management and consulting firm. Meyer found his love of out of doors and animals combined itself with photography. He has traveled from the Gulf of Mexico to Northern Canada photographing animals in natural settings. He has used the profits from the sale of his wild life photographs to purchase equipment for a wild life infirmary.