Charles Sleicher served in the Navy for some years, got a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, worked in the oil industry for 4years, and on an NSF post-doctoral fellowship, went to Cambridge, England. After all these he joined the University of Washington as Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering in 1906. Sleicher retired in 1991 after serving for twelve years as Chair of the Department. Ever since he got a Brownie box camera at the age of 14, Sleicher has been interested in photography, and he had a darkroom as a teenager. During those years, Sleicher used to spend summers in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Here, he developed a keen interest in natural history. The photographer has long been passionately interested in both photography and natural history, but it was not until after retirement that he was able to devote serious time to them and he decided to go to field trips and take photo workshops with John Shaw, Art Wolfe, Joe Englander, Pat O’Hara, Arthur Morris, Joe and Mary Ann McDonald, and the Rocky Mountain School of Photography.
Sleicher’s credits include several covers, photographs in many calendars, books, the National Geographic, other magazines. Sleicher exhibits at Meany Hall at the University of Washington and received a first prize in Nature’s Best Magazine’s Annual Contest. Today his photography is concentrated principally on natural history and travel - mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, landscapes, flowers, or almost anything that can be regarded as outdoor photography. He’s represented by Danita Delimont, a photo stock agency.
