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Position Sought: Photographer

Qualifications: Approximately 15 years’ experience with 35mm SLR cameras, both manual and auto focus, using professional techniques to capture quality images on color negative and transparency films. Experienced with flatbed scanners and photo editing software. Five years’ experience with digital SLR cameras.

Publication Credits (2000 to present)

InFlightUSA, Aug 2009 issue

Smoke Trails magazine, upcoming issue

Avweb.com's Pics of the week

Smoke Trails magazine, next issue

Antelope Valley Press, Jan 11, 2009

AvWeb.com Pictures of the Week, Jan 8, 2009

AvWeb.com Pictures of the week, Dec. 25th, 2008

City of Palmdale website photo gallery, 12-22-08

Avweb.com's Pictures of the Week, 11-13-08

World Airshow News, Oct. 2008 issue

Pacific Flyer, Sept 2008

World Airshow News, June 2008

In Flight USA, May 2008

Avweb.com Pics of the Week, 5-1-08

Bakersfield Californian, 4-26-08

Bakersfield.com, April 2008

Avweb.com's Pictures of the Week, 4-17-08

InFlight USA, April 2008

Avweb.com's Pics of the Week, 2-29-08

World Airshow News, Jan-Feb 2008

Airshowmag.com's 'Airshow Briefs' / Oct 2007.

AvWeb.Com's Pics of the Week, 8-23-08

Airshowmag.com, 'Airshow Briefs', June 2007

Inland Empire newspaper, Press Enterprise local news events, readers' photo gallery, May 2007

Avweb.com 'Pictures of the Week' winner, 5-23-07

Bakersfield Californian newspaper, travel section, 5-20-07

Antelope Valley Press newspaper, 5-14-07

Avweb.com's Pictures of the Week, 5-3-07

World Airshow News magazine, May 2007 (6 pics)

Airshowmag.com, 'Airshow Briefs' April 2007 (18 pics!)

Av Web.com's Pictures of the week, 4-5-07

Endless Journeys, Int'l Library of Photography, Spring 2007

AvWeb.com's pictures of the week, approx. late Feb. 2007

SmokeTrails magazine, Vol. 15 #4, article / photos, Oct 2006

AVWeb.com's pictures of the week, 10-5-06

AVWeb.com's Pictures of the Week, 6-29-06

World Airshow News magazine, May 2006 issue

Article / photo, Flypast magazine, May 2006 issue

“F-117 Photoscrapbook", spring 2006, written by Tony Landis

Best of 2005 hardcover book, spring of 2006

MCAS Miramar airshow 2005 marketing campaign, April 2005

Springfield, Illinois airshow 2005 airshow marketing campaign, March 2005

International Library of Photography publication, Summer 2005

Today’s Photographer magazine, May 2004

Today’s Photographer magazine, May 2004

Army Times.com online magazine, Oct 29, 2003 photo gallery

Airshow 2003 magazine, Key Publishing, UK, May 2003

Fayetteville Observer newspaper, North Carolina, April 2003

Photographer Forum magazine’s Best of Photography, December 2002

New York Institute of Photography website, Sept 2002

Commemorative Air Force website, June 2002

California State Parks, spring 2002

Today’s Photographer magazine, Winter 2002

Photographer Forum magazine's Best of Photography, December 2001

Photographer’s Edge catalog, Winter 2001

International Library of Photography book, Web of Memories, Summer 2001

Pacific Flyer newspaper, April 2001

Bakersfield Californian, March 25, 2001, travel section

Today’s Photographer magazine, June 2001

Today's Photographer magazine, March 2001

Today's Photographer  magazine, December 2000

Today’s Photographer magazine, March 2000

Flightline, newsletter of the CAF, April 2000

Writing Credits:

In Flight USA magazine

World Airshow News magazine

AV Press newspaper

Smoke Trails magazine

FlyPast magazine

Today's Photographer magazine

FlightLine (CAF)

Pacific Flyer

Education & Computer Skills

Self taught, still photography, 1994 to present

Graduate, NY Institute of Photography, 1996

Graduate, Quartz Hill high school, 1985

Experienced with JPG, TIFF formats; currently learning RAW

Experienced with HP flatbed scanners

Intervideo WinDVD Creator * Windows XP * Digital Image Suite 10 ArcSoft PhotoStudio 2000 * MS Office - Works, Word & Publisher * Ulead Photo Express 3.0

Photography Equipment Experience

Canon EOS 20D 8.3 megapixel digital SLR

Canon EOS Digital Rebel 6.3 megapixel digital SLR

Olympus Camedia E-10 4.0 megapixel digital camera

Canon EOS A2 EF 35mm SLR camera system & lenses

Minolta X-700 MF SLR camera system & lenses

Awards Received:

Winner of over 127 photography awards

Memberships / Accreditations

F-4 Phantom Society

American Image Press / IFPO

Former member, Commemorative Air Force

Other Photography Experiences:

Phancon 2008, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Az., October 2008

F-117 Final flights, April 2008

USAF Heritage Flight Conference, March 2008

USAF Heritage Flight Conference, March 2007

Air to air photography, Collings Foundations bomber tour, May 2006

Hawgsmoke competition, Davis-Monthan AFB, March 2006

USAF Heritage Flight Conference, March 2006

PhanCon 2005, AMARC, Tucson, Az., Oct. 2005

USAF Heritage Flight Conference, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Az; Mar 2005

Spaceship One launches - June, September, and October 2004

PhanCon 2004, Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico, October 2004

Permanent art display, Stoneground Cafe, Gilbert, Arizona, beginning March 2004

Air to air photography aboard WW2 era B-17, “Sentimental Journey”, May 2003

Air to air photography aboard WW2 era Japanese dive bomber, Valle, Az. June 2001

Air to air photography, Kodak International Balloon Fiesta, Albuquerque, NM, Oct 1998

Air to air photography, Antelope Valley Poppy Festival Balloon Race, April 1996

Future Goals:

Continued publication of my work in various books & magazines, as well as to write my own book(s) in the future. I am also planning several one-man photography exhibits.