About WDO Photography

Photography has been a part of my life for many years, but WDO Photography has evolved considerably along the way. What began as a passion for creating compelling images grew into a professional photography business built around helping people and organizations tell their stories through photography.

Over the years, I’ve photographed a wide range of subjects, people, places, and events. That experience taught me something that remains central to my work today: great photography isn't simply about having the right camera or making an attractive picture. It’s about understanding the subject, anticipating the moment, working with people, and creating images that accomplish a purpose.

Today, I focus that experience on helping businesses and organizations throughout Atlanta and the surrounding region. My work includes commercial and advertising photography, professional headshots, corporate events, conferences, and other photography created specifically for businesses and their marketing needs.

Atlanta is a particularly exciting place to be doing this work. From established companies and professional organizations to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and growing brands, there is an enormous variety of businesses that need authentic, professional photography to represent themselves.

Whether I'm creating environmental portraits for a company website, photographing a product or service for an advertising campaign, producing headshots for a team, or documenting an important corporate event, my goal is the same: create photographs that make your business look its best and help you communicate with the people you want to reach.

WDO Photography is now firmly rooted in Atlanta, and I'm proud to work with businesses throughout the metro area and across North Georgia.

ver more than 25 years as a professional photographer, I've had the opportunity to photograph an incredible variety of people, places, and events. I've worked with businesses, organizations, professionals, artists, and individuals, each with their own goals and stories to tell.

One of the biggest highlights of my career was photographing a sitting U.S. president. Experiences like that are memorable, but some of my most rewarding work has come from the everyday interactions I've had with clients and the opportunity to help them present themselves to the world.

I've also had the privilege of teaching photography to people with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Teaching has made me a better photographer because it requires me to understand not only how to create a photograph, but why a particular approach works. Helping someone understand a new concept and then watching that knowledge transform their photography is incredibly rewarding.

I've been a working photographer for more than 25 years. A lot has changed since those early days including the cameras, technology, and ways we use photographs. The one thing that hasn't changed is my curiosity and love of photography.

That experience has allowed me to photograph an enormous range of subjects for many different purposes. Along the way, I've learned that successful photography isn't simply about technical skill. It requires listening, understanding the goal of the assignment, working comfortably with people, and knowing how to create images that communicate an idea.

That's especially important when photography is being created for a business.

A professional photograph may be the first impression someone has of a company, an employee, a product, or an event. It needs to do more than look good. It needs to communicate something about who you are and what you want people to understand about your business.

Looking at old self-portraits like this it's hard to know where the time has gone. I've been a working photographer for more than 25 years. My baby-face youthful days are long behind me. However, I've not lost the curiosity. Nor have I lost the love of photography that still drives me today.

Too, in all that time I have had the privilege to help capture and tell some truly amazing stories. As a result, I've learned a great deal about storytelling and the power of photography. Additionally, I've honed my skills through photographing lots of different subjects for lots of different purposes.

Today, WDO Photography is based in Atlanta and works with businesses and organizations throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area and North Georgia.

My work includes commercial and advertising photography, professional headshots, corporate event photography, conference photography, and photography for businesses that need authentic images for their websites, marketing, advertising, and communications.

Whether I'm photographing an executive, creating images for a marketing campaign, documenting a corporate event, or helping a small business show customers what makes it different, the goal is always the same:

Create photographs that communicate who you are, what you do, and why people should care.

If you're looking for a photographer who can understand your goals, work with your people, and create images that represent your business professionally, I'd love to hear what you're working on.

I graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 2001. Then I attended Point Park University and the University of Pittsburgh. I studied photography and photojournalism. So I feel the need to thank Barry Lavery, Tom Donnelly, John Beale, and Karen Antonelli.

I learned so much from these incredible photographers and the other incredible instructors I had the pleasure to learn from.

Barry Lavery was an expert storyteller. He traveled the world and had passion and empathy only matched by his wit and enthusiasm for life.

Tom Donnelly was a walking database of photographic knowledge. He could take a photo of a hunk of coal and make it look sexy.

John Beale continues to amaze me with his abilities to find and photograph the mundane in unique and interesting ways.

Finally Karen Antonelli has always inspired me with her quiet patience. She seems to lets the world come together in front of her lens rather than building facades.