{"id":6,"date":"2021-07-07T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2021-07-07T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:27:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_52\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52\" src=\"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/land-shark1980-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/land-shark1980-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/land-shark1980-1019x1024.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/land-shark1980-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/land-shark1980-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/land-shark1980-1528x1536.jpg 1528w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/land-shark1980-2037x2048.jpg 2037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Land Shark, 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>I have been in photography for over 30 years as a professional and an educator. I began taking photos in high school. I\u00a0 wanted to document the people and places around me. Early on I decided I wanted to continue with photography and attended Odessa College&#8217;s photography program, then went on to Sam Houston State University. Nelson Schott, a professional photographer in Odessa who I assisted with weddings, sports, and event photography throughout college, was my mentor during this time. I received my Bachelor and Masters degrees in photography from SHSU.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>During the late 1980&#8217;s I worked for a portrait studio in Commerce TX. In 1990 I moved to Dallas to pursue commercial shooting with former classmates. I soon went to work for Pounds Photographic Lab as a traditional custom color printer in the darkroom and worked my way up to supervising the custom printing and digital imaging department of the lab.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>In 2002 I moved to Ohio to work as the manager of a digital imaging lab at Bowling Green State University. From 2002 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53\" src=\"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boquillas002-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boquillas002-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boquillas002-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boquillas002-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boquillas002-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boquillas002-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boquillas002-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>to 2006 I managed the lab and students working under me, and taught photography classes part time at the Toledo Museum of Art, Owens Community College, and BGSU. In 2006 I returned to Texas to teach fulltime in photography at Amarillo College. I am currently the coordinator for the Visual Arts department of the college.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Commercially, my interests are in architecture and commercial photography. Personally, I love landscape and nature photography and try to find ways to blend this into my work. I enjoy teaching students new to photography and am fortunate to have access and teach tradition film photography and darkroom techniques.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in photography for over 30 years as a professional and an educator. I began taking photos in high school. I\u00a0 wanted to document the people and places around me. Early on I decided I wanted to continue with photography and attended Odessa College&#8217;s photography program, then went on to Sam Houston State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photo101.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}