txphotog

Roger Talley


Las Vegas, Nevada
About

I had no intention of being a photographer. I was in the military, stationed overseas with very little to spend money on. So I bought a good camera and some lenses with no idea what I wanted to do with them.

A year later my new wife wanted pretty pictures done of her. I didn’t know how to do that, but had an advantage: neither she nor I had any idea what a “good picture” looked like. So we shot and declared it pretty good. Maybe it could be a little better with some lights? Another lens?

Those pictures were awful. But in time I began to learn what good photos looked like and how to produce them. By the time of my divorce I had begun a career as a commercial and sports photographer.

In time I took over a New York City modeling agency, where, unsurprisingly, I specialized in modeling and fashion photography as a free service to my models. For the last ten years I have been retired as a professional photographer, and now shoot happily as an amateur, doing whatever pleases me.