Hi and Welcome…..
I am an editorial / commercial photographer. I live in Michigan, work everywhere, which is both good and bad. Good because I am in the middle, which means I can get anywhere in the country in a timely manner. Bad… we have the Detroit Lions (kidding). A big advantage of being near Detroit is that I’m less then 6 hours by car to places like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis,Toronto, and everywhere in between. The airlines can’t always make that promise!
Non traditional means of becoming a photographer, 10 years in the US Navy, student at SIU, 14 years in calibration / repair while running a photography business locally, various assisting, and the super experience of back to back years at the Santa Fe Work Shops, studying under Andrew Eccles and Frank Okenfels 3, have given me an advantage of interacting with all kinds of people, seeing the beautiful things they offer, and the ability to inject that into my portraits. Relating with people is what makes a great picture, and my past makes it a little easier for me to do just that.
Here is some of my work, please feel free to contact me.
Tom McKenzie
810.343.0477
tom@tjmckenzie.com