Goodhew’s hobby has taken him throughout the United States, to Iceland, the Galapagos Islands and, most recently, on a photo safari to Kenya, where he shot wildlife with his Canon 10D in the Masai Mara and Samburu game reserves and Lake Nakuru National Park.

These days Goodhew, an Atlanta resident, former CEO of Peachtree Software and currently a vice president of Intelligent Systems, works exclusively in digital photography. He took some 5,000 photos in Africa, but in his tent at night Goodhew would delete the ones he didn’t think were topnotch. "I didn’t have a computer with me. I had 6 gigabytes of storage, so I reviewed all the pictures and culled a lot of them. I came home with probably 2,000."

Goodhew’s adventures have whetted his appetite for more nature photography excursions around the world. He already has booked a trip to Antarctica for February 2006.