After retiring from a career in Boston’s commercial real estate business, I enrolled in a professional “trade school” photography program that was then part of Boston University. After graduating, I stayed on staff for another year working as a TA. The instructors in our program were a variety of talented working professional photographers with different specialties, and the students were a mixed group of high school grads, mid-career changers, and recently retired people. It was an extremely colorful and highly creative group of characters, and my two years at CDIA rank among my life’s favorite chapters.