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I have been a photographer for 42 years. In addition to industrial photography for corporate clients, I do local assignments and offer technical services (mostly related to imaging) throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

What I liked most to do as a kid is race the roll of Tri-X Pan 400 or Kodachrome 25 back to my darkroom, develop it, print the negatives or mount the slides, and have the damp proofs back two hours later. Burned myself with the slide processing chemicals so often that I left that entirely up to the labs after a year or two. I do miss my old Beseler enlarger though. When I went to grade school, we still had photo processing as a class in shop, starting in the 6th grade.

As a young lad I also enjoyed puzzles and those 50 experiments in 1 electronics project kits. Over time I became fascinated with schematics and other electro-mechanical diagrams. I taught myself how to read and write these circuit maps and later found jobs in the technology sector, starting in 1979 at a circuit board factory in Santa Clara. I currently hold a position in the wireless industry. With the advent of smartphones like those based on Android and iOS, wireless has merged with photography!

My first profitable assignment was photographing every business storefront on State Street, in Newtown Pennsylvania. I offered the B&W 8x10 prints to each shop owner and sold many of them. That effort taught me that 35mm camera could be an important, and money-making, business tool. That was 1969. I was ten years old.

My parents let me take the train to New York City at a young age where I explored the faces and concrete canyons with my Yashica TL Electro X 35mm SLR. I was pretty lucky to have such a nice camera as a young boy. Woolco accidentally priced it wrong in a Sunday sales flyer. I bought mine new for $279. I think it was supposed to be $1,279. They had to sell it to me at the lower price because they never printed a correction or retraction. I treasured that camera, my tripod, and a few Pentax screw-mount lens' for 10 years.



Today I patiently teach business people how to document their business and sell their products or services. The final product always includes a visual walk-through of the entire business process accompanied by a precise description of every process. I even help intellectual property lawyers with their technical descriptions and drawings on occasion. I teach specific camera techniques for capturing fast moving objects like products on the assembly line, using HD video or still images.



Occasionally my photographs are used to design training manuals and marketing documentation, at other times we use images my clients captured. When the position fits, I have even been known to sign-up and create or grow an entire training department. I've done that for airlines (thus all the airport photos you see), logistics, software, and a few organizations too secret to mention here!

In the 1990s a major D.C. hospital asked me to develop a plan to convert their breast cancer unit from film to digital photography. I continued with similar film-to-digital projects for large clients for more than a decade.

Before I go to factories, bases, or offices, I typically walk around a city photographing people, places, things. These are the images you will see most often in my photostream. 99% of the photography I do specifically for my clients is confidential and covered by Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA). I cannot share those images with anyone though I continue to learn from that work myself.

Some clients hire me simply to keep them informed about the photography business. Digital photography, wireless submission, copyrights, and Photoshop or Aperture software can be confusing to artists who just want to click the shutter release for a living. Smartphone cameras are now ubiquitous but still do not provide the required quality of digital SLR images.

Travel industry executives sometimes purchase exclusive rights to use my photographs but the rest are mine to sell, share, and enjoy. I also enjoy teaching high school and college students, and adults of all ages!



Lately the entertainment industry has captured my focus. All my other photography work can continue since Irish musicians typically perform at night!

I currently also maintain a parallel career in the wireless industry but that's another story for a different place and time!

As an photographer/imaging specialist I have been serving clients in many major U.S. and international markets since 1969. You can learn more about my services at T. H. Williams Photography. Thanks for listening and learning about me!