Mildred Alpern is a former European History teacher who became interested in photography with the advent of digital; Robert Tallent is a former science teacher for whom photography has been a lifelong interest beginning at a young age. They met on a photography web site exchanging comments and ideas on their pictures, an interchange in cyberspace that developed to include discussion on literature, art, science, economics and history as well as photography - and finally, an idea for this collaborative undertaking.