About The Artist

Me and Dunny

Origins

There are things you probably need to know to appreciate my photographic efforts.

I've been a journeyman carpenter, Hollywood production sound engineer, computer programmer, graphic designer, web designer, web client side developer, even a day laborer and working cowboy. Today I'm a landscape, nature, and Western Lifestyle photographer and freelance writer based in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, near the North entrance to Yosemite National Park. My photographic efforts have been featured in numerous venues, from media to print, including magazine and book covers.

Most of my free time was spent outdoors, climbing, mountaineering, hiking, hunting, fishing, and sometimes just being out there where the sky meets the horizon, or down in quiet riparian canyons with the trout, On foot, by vehicle, and by pack horse. I've also extensively traveled most of the American West. I married into a family of cattle ranchers. So nature, landscapes, and images of the Western lifestyle tend to be among my favored subjects.

Growing up in Southern California, I spent a great deal of my free time escaping up Highway 395 through Bishop to the Eastern Sierra. And through all this, I usually carried a camera. But that’s not the whole story.

The story goes more like this. As a younger person, I fell into a pretty good position as a sound recording engineer in the Hollywood Film industry. It’s an easy place to get stuck. Decades of sound stages, locations all over the country, television, feature films, commercials, and movie stars. But I was far more visually inclined, so when I worked right by at least five Academy Award Cinematographers, I tried to learn from them. I worked closely with on-screen personalities who were making a million dollars a week. It’s a fact. I racked up more than 70 top level credits at the Internet Movie Database. Listening for a living. But I was never such a great listener. Just ask my wife. So while I was good at that Hollywood career, as I tried to be with all of them, sound recording was just going to be more of a means to an end.

Directions

So one day I just walked away. Moved to the California Central Coast. Went back to my Western roots. Worked on cattle ranches, and eventually fell into computer programming, web design, and Photoshop. Got hired by some well known ground breakers in the digital age. Learned enough to build the very website you’re now viewing from scratch, using HTML, CSS, and javascript. But it still wasn’t enough. I soon drifted over to the Sierra Nevada range.

There my photo efforts fell into the digital age. Bought that first digital SLR. Then another. And another. And yet another. Four camera bodies in as many years, and ten lenses. I started filling up hard drives, terabyte after terabyte. Chasing the light. But how to pay for all that?

The answer came when I discovered that digital stock media agencies were looking for photographers. It was an open field, but a tough one. So in 2007 I set up High Sierra Scenics as a business container. And it allowed a foot into the door to professional photography. It paid for al that gear, for the trips, the MacBooks, the Wide-gamut monitors, and the software.

Thanks to much appreciated grace, I now live with my wife, our three Quarter Horses, two Australian Cattle dogs, two cats, a flock of chickens, backyard wildlife including deer, rabbits, quail, turkeys, coyotes, and a rattlesnake every now and then. Photography helped to pay for all this, chasing the light with shutter and glass. But enough about me. In fact WAY too much. Just an ordinary fellow looking up to great individuals.

I suppose the real question — the one many are looking to answer — is what can I do for YOU? ?






Stock Agency Contracts With:

Adobe Stock

Getty Images

Shutterstock





Book Covers, Magazine Covers, and PR/Ad Campaigns for:

American Chemical Society

Avalon Travel Publishing

Bible Society

California Cattleman

CreateSpace Independent Publishing

Chartered Accountants of Scotland

Outskirts Press

Oxford University Press

Port Of Stockton

Rivers West Publishing

Routledge Publishing

The Delta Journal

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC





Images used in Feature Articles, Websites, or Opinion Pieces for:


24/7 Wall Street

AG DAILY

American Banker

American Bird Conservancy

Appalachian Mountain Club

Apartment Guide

Audubon

AZO Life Sciences

Beliefnet

Beta News

Bible Society

Boston Group

Buffalo News

California Wildlife Foundation

Capitol Weekly

CBS News

Chicago Tribune

Christian Journeyman

Claremont Homes

CNBC

Coastal Heritage Magazine

Consumer Affairs

Cornel University

Daily Finance

Dallas Morning News

Delta Journal

Destination Tips

Dividend Ninja

Electrical Earthing

Encyclopedia Britannica

Engineering and Technology

Equestrian Worldwide

Forbes

Gothamist

Hartford Courant

Homes Dot Com

Honor Stockton Blue

Horse Journals

Hotels Dot Com

Indian Country Today

Inside Climate News

Laid Back Camping

Land Agent Services

Live Science

Living Green

Loadstar

Memphis Flyer

Memphis Magazine

Mother Earth News

Mother Jones

Mystery Shoppers

Nanotech Europe

National Equipment Appraisal

National Review

NBC News

New Jersey Law Journal

Nob Hill Gazette

Orchard and Vine Magazine

Pacific Standard

Passport Magazine

Portland News Herald

Reader’s Digest

Realtor Dot Com

Red Canary Collective

Red Letter Christians

ReligioScope USA

Renewable Energy World

Rewire News Group

Rivers West Publishing

San Francisco Curbed

Science Daily

Smarter Travel

Sojourners

Solon

Stacker

United Way

US News and World Report

Vacation Idea

Vets National

Wall Street Journal

Wealth Management

Wind Energy

Yahoo! News

YS Trading





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