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Over spent the last 30 years shooting for many organizations. I shot Bill Gates when he was a kid for Time Magazine and it propelled me into a career for 11 years with National Geographic shooting stories on the Kathmandu Valley, Mt. Everest for the 100 year anniversary, I spent two years shooting elephants in Africa and Asia. My commercial work includes shooting the Marlboro Man for 18 years; shooting Wells Fargo for 4 years as well as Boeing Airplanes, United Airlines, and so forth. I have traveled most of the continents of the world.

In recent years I have been directing major TV commercials for many corporations (go to my website: www.williamthompson.com and review the directors page.

In a an effort to being close to log home, I live in a wonderful log home on Puget sound and after all these years of travel have decided that it to stay closer to home, i.e., directing film. Additionally, I have found that years of journalism has taken me into a new arena of filming the wedding ceremony and also human events. It is fascinating to journalistically define these crucial moments in human life… there is little difference in the excitement of shooting a wedding in Bhutan and one in Maui. Thus, I have started shooting weddings in addition to my commercial work… go to my website: www.seattleweddingphotography.us and note the journalistic rather than staged nature of the work.

We also shoot high end homes for website sales… go to www.elizabethshouse.net for an example of how simple but powerful imagery can sell a two million dollar home.

The great joy of making images knows few boundaries for me… an exciting and enlivening life venture.

Follow me on Twitter: @williamthompson