My name is Ken and I create images! I've been doing it since I was about 5 years old, first with a Kodak BROWNIE camera that my Dad gave me and then with a Kodak Instamatic that I bought with cereal box tops and a few bucks which I'm sure my Mom gave me. It's amazing what you used to be able to get with cereal box tops!.
I believe I'm fascinated with cameras and light and I've been a lighting geek since high school. My absolute favorite thing was to do lighting design for the stage department. We did many large musical productions during that time and I could always be found hanging lights or crawling around in the lighting grid
I don't think there was ever a question that I would spend my life doing something with both cameras and light! It's been my career and my very enjoyable hobby. I put in many years as a cameraman for NBC News. As a freelancer I've had many years shooting documentaries, home improvement shows, food/ cooking shows and interior design programs.
Recently I've been working with interior designers and decorators shooting commercial and residential interiors. I find these type of shoots very exciting and I love the technical challenges that present themselves at the various locations. As a photographer my challenge is finding solutions to problems and coming up with an image that exceeds the expectations of those involved.
Previously I spent about 10 years as the primary video shooter for Christopher Lowell Entertainment. where I would shoot field segments for his popular design and makeover shows on Discovery and HGTV. That got me into shooting promotional pieces, commercial advertising images, broadcast television commercials and catalog product shots for all the retail products designed, developed and marketed by Christopher's company.
When I'm able to get away I enjoy visiting areas when I can play around with taking some landscape images - there's some samples down below from a Yosemite trip
The Kodak BROWNIE camera, my first! It took 620 roll film and I still have most of the shots from this camera - somewhere.
Camera number 2. The Kodak INSTAMATIC, what a step up! Actually it wasn't, the pictures from the Brownie looked much better. This was just a lot more convenient with the 126 cartridges and that totally dorky FLASH CUBE.
