At this time Eric lives in Louisville, Kentucky and has been there for about three years now.
"I love the climate and the people who are, for the most part, as friendly as you'd find anywhere you look."
" This town is so full of history and old architecture that one could spend a lifetime, just learning about Louisville's past."
Eric is currently associated with:
Why, you're here on their website right now...
Eric has been a photographer for quite some time now, working with film and digital stock. He uses Nikon cameras and strobes, but splits the difference between Nikon and Sigma lenses; prefers Bogen tri and monopods as well as Lowepro camera bags and Domke camera vests.
His arsenal of camera gear is too exhaustive to list...and would just bore you anyway, so we'll skip that part. Besides, who does it impress?
Eric now uses Photoshop for his editing and utilizes a screaming AMD Dual-4200 PC for his computer. Again...no reason to list the tools, but this lets you know he's a PC and not a Mac person. Suffice it to say...none of the gear is second tier!
Eric joined the LPS in November 2005, and is now serving as the Vice President in charge of club meetings and the digital instruction. Founded in 1941 the LPS and has a sterling reputation within the Louisville area. The LPS has worked with the March of Dimes as event photographers, supplied artwork to the Ronald McDonald House, provide assistance with the Fine Arts Department at the State Fair every year as well as sponsor the Student Division of the photographic entries. On a regular basis they are often asked to work with other charitable and learning institutions around the area.
The LPS is a well organized and historic organization with a long and proud membership base. Many members have been so for decades.
Eric has served as an Assistant Director of the Fine Arts Department since 2005, just a year after moving to Kentucky, setting up and organizing the photography and art displays for the Fair. He is also involved with designing the entry requirements for the photography classes and ...stop by and see if he's there sometime during the State Fair.
In 2005 the fair had some 2,200 photo entries...in 2006 it had jumped to 2,948 entries!
For the last two years Eric has been the official photographer for this historic old home in the Central Park area of Louisville on Saint James Court.
For some reason none of the photos on the CCH site are mine, so please do not look at the photos there and blame me for the poor lighting, vignette issues, barrel distortion, bad angles or other problems they have.
Eric has been designated as a state approved still photographer for feature films shot in the state of Kentucky.
Each year the Old Louisville Historic Homes Association has a tour of their homes in the Central Park area of Louisville....unbelievable homes.
The Forum is a splinter group of the LPS and was founded around 1992. Eric served as President of the Forum in 2005, having joined June 2004. He resigned in December 2005 and was immediately snagged by the LPS to become a member of their Board of Directors.
Under Eric's direction the club newsletter expanded from two pages to a ten page color document. Eric served as President, meeting designer (two per month) and presenter, newsletter head writer and editor, event planner.. Eric resigned due to burnout after twelve months.
Eric started out his career in photography by shear happenstance. While living in the Dallas / Fort Worth area of Texas he was working as a DTP (Desk Top Publisher) in the 1980's and had a request for photos of products to place into some catalogs and menu's he was producing for several clients, so...
Owning a Canon AE1, he sat out to conquer this easy field of photography...and got in over his head in about five minutes.
Deciding he needed better equipment, and understanding that Canon had just changed lens mounts so he'd need to start all over again anyway, he set off on a diligent battle to determine what camera system to buy. Having already owned a Minolta and Canon SLR he realized that he'd heard great things about the ruggedness of Nikon too. After about a year of research he decided Nikon was the best gear for his purpose.
Eric found that Canon was great photography equipment if you wanted a camera to do all the work for you, but Nikon was different, one has to know how to use a camera to get the most out of Nikon because, at the time, Nikon didn't have all the extra bells and whistles the Canon cameras all seemed to have. So, wanting to be in control of the camera instead of doing what the camera thought was best, Eric decided to go with Nikon...now he had to learn how to use it; so...off to school he goes.
Eric is a graduate of both the New York Institute of Photography as well as the Nikon School.
The New York Institute of Photography, established in 1910, is the world's oldest and largest photography school. NYIP has trained more successful photographers than any other school in the world! This school is extremely comprehensive and takes years to complete, but when you're finished...you pretty much know more than you thought was possible to know about photography. Eric has been know to say that he learned more in the first module than he had learned on his own in the five years he'd studied on his own. He highly recommends the NYIP school to anyone interested in learning all they can about photography.
As for the Nikon School, well. they teach you how to use the Nikon system of cameras and strobe equipment. If you want a crash course on how to get started, try this first. The courses last a day and are very inexpensive.
