Thank YOU for visiting my page to find out about me - the person I am and what I love to do behind the camera. My eyes and mind has had a very life-long love affair with photography that has willingly controlled me for many decades. I've worked in many darkrooms using film, and now am using digital to record these many lovely things I see each day. Join me on my photo journey!
The great city of San Francisco, California is my hometown though now living in western New York (WNY), spending time snapping with my wife Sheila in fabulous locations between Rota (Cádiz) in the southwest corner of Spain (the best Spain corner), and my hometown SF. I am an artistic photographer of years, years and more years behind film and digital cameras with experience in these themes and more: glamour, family, children, portraiture, boudoir and artnudes, events and more. I love capturing landscapes, windows, sunsets, trees and leaves. I am a sunset lover, a landscape capturer, and a very tired cloud and comet chaser, BUT still very passionate about capturing dreams and reality... will you allow me to put your family and personal moments on virtual film?
In December 2014 My camera was stolen while I was shooting on the wet rainy streets of San Francisco, on the edge of North Beach and Chinatown. While the gear was never recovered, I had to revise my planning on returning to Spain that same month, and after returning from Spain months later, finally... finally managed to make the expensive steps in replacing that which was stolen, including a small tripod I had planned to take and leave in Spain. IF YOU buy used photographic equipment, please check online at the very many online "report-a-theft" sites to SEE if your future used photo gear was reported stolen. I am also at Lenstag.com where my stolen gear had been recorded (now removed) and the new replacements are registered. Be careful on the streets everywhere; photographers have always been and continue to be targets in crime, and much more, and not just thefts.
I have been fortunate enough to have had my imagery exhibited in Spain, Sweden and various cities of the United States, and published in magazines and newspapers. I am always looking for more places to exhibit and share my international imagery - OR do you have a wall that needs to be decorated with the colors of Life and the World?
Above all, I love recording little details…. those things you might have missed due to a meeting that kept you from looking up at the birds, sky, clouds, or seeing the full moon. Business or home life may keep you inside a building, while the everyday Life has moved on, away from your sight…. there are so many things WE miss in a day and sometimes within a lifetime, that could have brighten our lives somehow.
This is what I hope to share with you, and hope you enjoy what you see!
I speak English and my version of Español Andaluz
News of June 2023: Months ago I announced for the first time in many decades, I will no longer use my domain of fototaker.net [THIS is NOT a link]. Since May 2023, fototaker.net does NOT link to any of my images, and instead my current online name of fototaker Tony can be searched online. This is a very sad occasion for me, as I created my virtual name of fototaker while living permanently in Spain. Since May 2023, I've been TRYing to quit Network Solutions where my domain Name is registered and maintained. The domain is in my name till 2028. Would you be interested in taking over my domain? I see a photographer in Germany who uses something similar. Are you a creative soul who loves photography as I once did? YOU can own my domain of fototaker.net, and once it expires, take it over completely. This is a serious manner and not a game. Serious photographers and inquiries only
The great city of San Francisco, California is my hometown though now living in western New York (WNY), spending time snapping with my wife Sheila in fabulous locations between Rota (Cádiz) in the southwest corner of Spain (the best Spain corner), and my hometown SF. I am an artistic photographer of years, years and more years behind film and digital cameras with experience in these themes and more: glamour, family, children, portraiture, boudoir and artnudes, events and more. I love capturing landscapes, windows, sunsets, trees and leaves. I am a sunset lover, a landscape capturer, and a very tired cloud and comet chaser, BUT still very passionate about capturing dreams and reality... will you allow me to put your family and personal moments on virtual film?
In December 2014 My camera was stolen while I was shooting on the wet rainy streets of San Francisco, on the edge of North Beach and Chinatown. While the gear was never recovered, I had to revise my planning on returning to Spain that same month, and after returning from Spain months later, finally... finally managed to make the expensive steps in replacing that which was stolen, including a small tripod I had planned to take and leave in Spain. IF YOU buy used photographic equipment, please check online at the very many online "report-a-theft" sites to SEE if your future used photo gear was reported stolen. I am also at Lenstag.com where my stolen gear had been recorded (now removed) and the new replacements are registered. Be careful on the streets everywhere; photographers have always been and continue to be targets in crime, and much more, and not just thefts.
I have been fortunate enough to have had my imagery exhibited in Spain, Sweden and various cities of the United States, and published in magazines and newspapers. I am always looking for more places to exhibit and share my international imagery - OR do you have a wall that needs to be decorated with the colors of Life and the World?
Above all, I love recording little details…. those things you might have missed due to a meeting that kept you from looking up at the birds, sky, clouds, or seeing the full moon. Business or home life may keep you inside a building, while the everyday Life has moved on, away from your sight…. there are so many things WE miss in a day and sometimes within a lifetime, that could have brighten our lives somehow.
This is what I hope to share with you, and hope you enjoy what you see!
I speak English and my version of Español Andaluz
News of June 2023: Months ago I announced for the first time in many decades, I will no longer use my domain of fototaker.net [THIS is NOT a link]. Since May 2023, fototaker.net does NOT link to any of my images, and instead my current online name of fototaker Tony can be searched online. This is a very sad occasion for me, as I created my virtual name of fototaker while living permanently in Spain. Since May 2023, I've been TRYing to quit Network Solutions where my domain Name is registered and maintained. The domain is in my name till 2028. Would you be interested in taking over my domain? I see a photographer in Germany who uses something similar. Are you a creative soul who loves photography as I once did? YOU can own my domain of fototaker.net, and once it expires, take it over completely. This is a serious manner and not a game. Serious photographers and inquiries only
