Gary Koelzer Photography
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About me…..Never easy to talk about yourself……First off, I am a Husband.  I have been married for almost 23 years.  I have two fantastic kids that are 21 and 27. I am a father and a dad.  I have been through all the typical things that life throws at us.  First day of kindergarten, high school graduations, first dates, “The Talk”, proms, break-ups, engagements, youth sports, high school sports, all day dance recitals and volleyball tournaments.  Moments we all cherish.  I would never change a thing!!

History

I have been involved with photography since about 1980.  My first year of High School.  I loved taking pictures at the high school sporting events and learned to develop the film and print the pictures in the darkroom.  I began selling cameras at a camera store.  I then opened a photography studio and began taking things more serious.  We traveled to different advertising agencies around Detroit and showed our portfolio to art directors.  We landed a few accounts and learned how to operate a business. 
 
I became an assistant for a top end architectural photographer out of Detroit where I learned how the best become the best.  We shot everything from multi-million dollar homes to stadiums.  She was a perfectionist.  This was all prior to the digital age and so there was no such thing as Photoshop.  So I learned how to do things right, in camera, without relying on post production.
 
I jumped into the digital age and began shooting my kids playing sports.  After paying an astronomical amount of money for my daughter’s senior pictures (they were absolutely beautiful). I put my plan into action to shoot my sons pictures when it was his time. Once his pictures were done, I began to receive inquiries.  And the rest you can say, is history. 
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