Photography clients asked me to capture people, places, power, poetry, feelings, and joys: I was a twice a self-employed professional photographer - in Film and Digital Times - for a total of 37 years. My first professional photography experience was full-time Boston Globe photographer during the summer of 1967. I was handed two to six eastern Massachusetts assignments a day throughout the summer while 22 regular staffers took vacations. We did all our own processing and printing. Three intense - glorious - months in a city new to me and surrounded by the Globe's cast of classic newspapering characters. These three months confirmed my commitment to photojournalism and a photography career.
After US Navy service at sea I started that career: magazine assignments, lots of ski publication photography, and by '73 I was back living in Boston seeking Northeast clients in photojournalism, advertising, corporate, and commercial work - all on location. In 1984 I built out a studio space. This opened up new client and image creation opportunities. In 1990 my studio business added broader marketing communications projects with writing and design responsibilities.
Digital photography rose like a timid sun in the film-based professional photography landscape during the early nineties. US companies entering the digital photography marketplace needed consulting about this emerging product and service world, How would Digital supplant analog film capture? Companies needed to better understand shifting futures, and their new customers were foreign territory to their marketers. I spoke at Seybold and other industry venues, helped size new markets for technical companies seeking opportunities, and wrote case studies to illustrate market shifts.
Interesting Marketing Communications and Business Development staff positions came my way in the late 90's with digital camera sales, software supply-chain services, digital asset management, and short-run database-driven printing startups.
At a sharp turn off this road, I dove into public school teaching in 2000 while earning a Master of Education degree. We moved to Hawaii's Big Island in where I taught several different public elementary school class levels in my small rural Big Island town. A wonderful community, adults and students.
I reentered professional photography in 2010 for clients that needed well-composed interior photos and impactful exteriors of high-end vacation rentals. Other clients enjoyed full-on studio-level lighting and backgrounds to enliven portraiture at events.
Since moving to Seattle in early 2017 my work's been entirely personal. Here we are in energetic Seattle, living just across busy Eliot Bay harbor from a downtown cityscape. A step from the house are Puget Sound are westward vistas of the Salish Sea.
Night walks with Jack, our dog, through surrounding streets are full of the little views seen here in the galleries labeled "One Dog Night".
Satisfying exercise for me, Jack (the dog), and my eye.