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Leslie A. Kelly
A native of Louisiana, Kelly has traveled extensively in North America, Central America, Europe and Japan. He holds a BA English (1966) and MBA Management (1970) from McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Kelly served with the US Army Security Agency (XVIII Airborne Corps) at Fort Bragg, NC., and Southern Florida during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis in electronic intelligence. He has taught writing and speaking skills in the Corporate world, handled government relations in Washington, DC, for a major Corporation and made numerous presentations on photography, travel and business subjects.

Since the launch of the Alta Vista Photo Finder (October 1998) and the Arriba Vista Image Searcher (November 1998), Kelly has become a quick study in their image acquisition and operations and how it applies to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. When his images were infringed, he filed a lawsuit on April 6, 1999, alleging that Arriba Soft Corporation and its Arriba Vista Image Searcher violated copyright laws. During this process, and in numerous copyright infringement lawsuits and other copyright infringement settlement actions, Kelly has become acquainted with how search engines work and the framing issues of copyright law.

Leslie A. Kelly has been a professional photographer for more than thirty years. He is a member of American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP-LA) and Graphic Artists Guild (GAG).Kelly's photography and travel stories about Americana have been published in more than one hundred magazines, numerous newspapers, calendars and books in the United States, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Panama.

Kelly has published or provided photography for photo books about Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House books, with Bill Anderson, noted Laura biographer. These books include Laura Ingalls Wilder Country (HarperCollinsPublishers 1990), Musical Memories of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Hear & Learn Publications 1992), Little House Country: A Photo Guide to the Home Sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Terrell 1989), Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook (HarperCollinsPublishers September 1995) and Little House Guidebook (HarperCollinsPublishers 1996). Kelly operates a very popular website at http://lauraingallswilder.com that features his and Anderson's books about Laura Ingalls Wilder.

With Doyle Yoder, he co-authored America's Amish Country (America's Amish Country Publications 1992), a coffee table book depicting the Amish lifestyle in 19 states and Ontario, Canada, on the Tricentennial of the founding of the Amish as a sect. In 2000, Yoder and Kelly published the sequelAmerica's Amish Country II: Revisiting America's Amish Country (America's Amish Country Publications 2000) which reviewed the Amish lifestyle in 24 states and Ontario. Kelly operates a very popular website at http://www.amish.net that features information about the Amish lifestyle as well as travel information and shopping for Amish made goods and visiting America's Amish Country!

For the California Sesquicentennial, Kelly wrote and illustrated California's Gold Rush Country, 1848 - 1998 (Les Kelly Publications March 1997). This book was the product of more than four years of extensive travel throughout California's gold rush country. Kelly's photography, of what remains after several hundred thousand miners driven by gold fever literally dug up most of the rivers and creeks on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, reflects not only California's rich history but also portrays its spectacular natural scenic beauty. Kelly also wrote and illustrated Traveling California's Gold Rush Country (Falcon Press August 1997) as a companion book to California's Gold Rush Country. This complete guide to the gold country details historic inns, restaurants and museums where the visitor can see the historic past.

Kelly is a former member of the Oregon-California Trail Association; a Member of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges; and, a Lifetime Member of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association, Mansfield, Missouri, and a former member of its Board of Directors.