About thw05 / Thomas Williams  

I have been a photographer for 39 years. In addition to industrial photography for corporate clients, I do local assignments and offer technical training services in 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.

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.

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.



I patiently teach business people how to document their business and sell their products or services. I teach specific camera techniques for capturing fast moving objects like a product on the assembly line. Sometimes I am asked to show employees how to use Photoshop and Microsoft Word to create visually interesting training or marketing materials.



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!

Before I go to the factories, bases, or offices, I typically walk around the cities and photograph 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).

There are people who have hired me just to teach them the business of selling photography. All those forms and legal terms can be confusing to people who just want to click the shutter release for a living.

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!



I have been serving clients in many major U.S. and international markets since 1983. You can learn more about my services at T. H. Williams Photography. Thanks for listening and learning about me!