Photographer's Bio:

Producing Images That Tell Your Story is Stan's goal. Stan's documentary style of images is heavily influenced by his need for an artistic presentation. His art palette tends towards scenic, inviting, enjoyable, and comforting. Functional, and interesting, images will greatly enhance the delivery of any client message.

Travel, Tourism, and Text Books are easily descriptive destinations of many of Stan's Stock Agency Photos. Articles or sections in magazines, newspapers, and web sites, will use such images to draw attention or to augment the text. Over 8000 of Stan's images are available for licensed purchase via stock photo websites. With over 76,000 licenses sold, you will find Dayton and Ohio well represented, including many related sub topics, within these libraries. His stock photos continue to be discovered in many well known local and national publications, including, The Dayton Daily News, Forbes magazine, The New Yorker magazine, and National Geographic magazine web site. (Example links below).

Helping other photographers produce Images That Tell Your Story is also a passion of Stan's. He is a skilled presenter and has numerous Photography seminars and presentations available on request. He will enjoy making presentations to individuals, small groups, and photography clubs.

Call on Stan when needing an experienced guest judge for a photo contest. His lifelong photography experience, in-depth study of composition, and offering image critique sessions, has uniquely enhanced his ability to review and rank images for Impact, Technical, and Composition qualities.

A portion of Stan's extensive image library is being elevated to unique and stunning pieces of wall art.  Inquire about this new venture of Painterly Stylized Photos to add a touch of sophistication to any home or office.

Stan is passionate about producing photography based Images That Tell Your Story. He is always looking for new and creative ways to impact the end viewer. Documenting a storyline, invoking a special memory, or stirring a vivid emotion, are his lofty goals of producing a unique and successful work.

The Life Long Journey: 

Stan began his photography interest as a teenager when picking up his father's Argus C3 camera and looking at the knobs and dials. Using a more simple box camera, he soon had completed all photography courses and electricity courses in the local 4H club. Those were the seeds planted for an advanced photography hobby and professional electronics career.

He bought his first Olympus OM-1 SLR camera in 1976 and extended photography knowledge through parks, city scenes, family, and most anything that was a new found subject challenge.

In 1996 the boss at the Manufacturing Engineering day job came with a request. "You know about cameras and photography. We [the company] have laid off much of our drafting and drawing department. There are no resources for sketches or drawings to be made to include in manufacturing work instructions. Can you research these new-fangled digital cameras and see if we can include photos in our work instructions?" Not long after, the boss signed a purchase requisition for $10,000 to buy a Nikon DCS-420, 1.5 megapixel, camera system. Digital photo editing was then done in Photoshop version 4. Digital images had just come together with word processing via desktop computer. The next years of photography experience, on the day job, were very heavy in documentation of parts, mechanical assemblies, and electronic printed circuit boards.

2002 saw the convergence of Internet communications, websites that sell digital stock photos, and digital camera prices coming down to a manageable personal level. In submitting digital photos to stock photo sites, Stan quickly learned the importance of technical image quality - just to get past tough incoming inspections. Soon, he began learning that subject matter and composition mattered very significantly to potential buyers. If Stan was to earn any money, he had to learn to think like a buyer - somebody that would part with their money for the purpose of using his images. Stan started a serious quest to see and create images as other people would see and use images. However, because there was no direct connection between stock photo buyers and photographers, any knowledge gained was all third or fourth hand and being passed around among stock photographers.

On to 2009. A friend invited Stan to visit Focus Photo Club. Though the images and subject matter at the club was different than his usual stock photo fare, he was now able to be in discussions and critique sessions, and to learn first hand how other people viewed and interacted with photographs. Impact, Composition, and Technical, the competition scoring categories, helped tune his eyes. Participating in competition judging and critique sessions among the photographers helped to break some of the emotional ties to his images and try to view them from a colder outside distanced perspective.

Stan, his wife, and their interior designer, contacted Dayton Art Solutions (Kettering, Ohio) for printing and framing of his personal art for his home. The store owner was impressed with Stan's new Painterly Stylized Photos being produced and, in November, 2023, made agreements to produce and sell his works via the store.

In September, 2024, Stan accepted an invitation to  host a Guest Artist display at the Sugarcreek Photography Gallery (Bellbrook, Ohio).  His successful first wall art exhibit of Painterly Stylized Photos propelled him into becoming a full member of this cooperative gallery. Since then, he has also added subject and scenic photos among his wall art portfolio.

In recent years Stan has tried pass knowledge forward to other photographers through critique sessions, presentations, and seminars. Technical camera operation discussions are within his wheelhouse. Stan studies composition and is helpful to budding photographers. Stan enjoys being a mentor, teacher, and knowledge resource person for photography.

Over 8000 stock photos available via iStockPhoto and Alamy web sites. Over 76,000 licenses sold since 2003.

Photography Judge at The Great Darke County Fair photography competition (Ohio, USA). 2018

PhotographyJudge at Focus Photo Club (Dayton, Ohio, USA). Many occasions.

Photography Guest Judge at Tripod Camera Club (Dayton, Ohio, USA). Year end comprehensive competitions. Years: 2013, 2023, 2024, 2025.

Focus Photo Club Photographer of the Year. 2013 & 2025. Ranked within top 5, many years.

Focus Photo Club Member: 2009 - Present

Producer of Presentations and Seminars: 2012 - Present

Photo Trip Leader: Nickel Plate 765 Steam Engine Locomotive at Steam In The Valley, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Akron/Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Multiple years.

Beavercreek Popcorn Festival, Official Photographer. 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018.

Agreements made in November, 2023, to sell Painterly Stylized Photos via Dayton Art Solutions (Kettering, Ohio).

Invited to, and joined, the Sugarcreek Photography Gallery (Bellbrook, Ohio) as a contributing cooperative member. October, 2024. The initial genre included Painterly Stylized Photos. Subject and Scenic photos were added to this portfolio in June, 2025.