A few things about the Photographer, his beautiful Wife, and their lovely daughter

    We are a photography/fine arts business. I have a degree in Professional Photography from the Hallmark School of Photography, having graduated in 1983, with focus on portrait, commercial, and sports photography. After graduation, I worked for two large corporate firms, Yearbook Associates, which would do portrait work for colleges and universities, with it's primary mission of doing senior, and undergraduate portraiture, and secondly Olan Mills Photography, working as both a road , and studio photographer, and instructor Prior to that I graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Social Work in 1977, and a minor in Photojournalism. I was able to contribute to the university's newspaper with social, and sports event.  My wife Sarah, a painter, has a Master Degree in Fine Arts from West Liberty University, who recently retired from Marshall County Schools with 43 years , and now is an Adjunct Professor of Art at Wheeling University, formerly Wheeling Jesuit University, and lastly my Daughter Emily who graduated from West Liberty University with a background in Graphic Design/Illustration, who then decided to follow in the path of her mother. teaching at Washington Lands Elementary School working in Pre-school(kindergarten) She loves her 4 and 5 year olds.

  We are definitely old school, with a solid foundation in very traditional(film based), and very conventional(digital based) processes. My work, as well as , my wife are not radical departures from classic form of art or photography. I have worked in color, but also black and white mediums. I understand and have used various formats, I grew up in a darkroom, having spent hundreds of hours to sitting at a desk, now employing numerous post process digital applications. Regardless of how the image was finally achieved, it was always the thought, the design, and the execution that brought about the resulting image. My wife has worked in oil, acrylic, and water color, on wood to canvas surfaces, small to large aspects.  As stated , experience, and ability far outweigh modern day cameras, and processes. 

And there you have it, years of experience boiled down to a few paragraphs. 

Additionally, I retired from the Navy in 2001, having served 23 1/2 years. I served in the United States Naval Reserve, first as a Second Class Petty Officer Machinist Mate , and then as a First Class Petty Officer Boatswains Mate. I have been on small ships, like destroyers, to large ships, such as aircraft carriers. Over all those years, I been all over the world, went to VietNam initially when I was just 19, then in following years with various units, and battalions was overseas in Europe, the Pacific, and then the Middle East doing land, ship and air cargo logistical support during Desert Storm.