About Us

A little more than 20 years ago I got bit by the camera bug. Bad. I took pictures of everything that moved and some that didn't. My friends worried about me. They said I either needed to give it up, or open a studio to support my habit. Well, here I am.

Back then there wasn't much in the Bullhead area, and there certainly wasn't a quality professional portrait studio to service local families. We grew together. And over the years we entered the homes of hundreds and hundreds of people, as families all over Mohave Country hung our work on their walls, passed out portraits to friends, and gave portraits to relatives.

I still remember the first time I walked into a clien'ts home and saw a portrait I had created proudly displayed on their wall... WOW! Now THAT was a payoff I was quite unprepared for! And I learned my first real lesson in professional photography: the gratification that comes from client's appreciating and cherishing your work...

And the more I worked at creating these cherished images, the more I realized something kind of odd about the portrait process: that my portrait subjects had no idea what the images I was creating of them looked like as I snapped them! They stood or sat in front of my camera, totally trusting me and placing themselves in my hands, confident that I knew what I was doing and would give them something they loved.

The nervousness and unease that almost everyone feels in front of a camera is natural. You're handing over your soul to a total stranger and saying, "Here, spiff it up and make it glow!" I came to cherish that trust and faith that people put in me. It was a powerful realization, and one that inspires my work every day. It was my second real lesson in professional photography.

My third lesson was a life-lesson also, as I saw I could not do everything by myself and still stay creative and fresh for my clients. Luckily I found Jan... or we found each other... who is perfectly in tune and creative herself and has become the real heart of Camera Works Photography. Her love of People - especially children - shines in everything she does, and it's what makes our studio REALLY special...

Over 20 years and counting... it's been quite a ride...