Phil Templeton
Photographer and Adventurer
Phil Templeton loves photography and has been capturing memories for over 30 years. He loves doing portraits, family photos, nature photos, live action sports and more.
This is me!
I was born a long, long time ago seemingly in a far away Galaxy. I was born to Roy and Rhumel and my sister Kim came before me and my brother Kyle followed. I am a Scorpio but born under a Sputnik star. I told you it was a long time ago!
The about me, given the purpose here, is relative to photography. I would have to say it very well may be genetic. Dad seemingly had a camera in hand from the beginning. I am in possession of yellowed and diminished photographs from his High School days to his Legion and US Army baseball days. I have the same from his Army days from Germany, France, Italy and Japan on his aborted journey to the Korean conflict. I have pictures of me and my siblings, our birthdays and holidays to pictures of JFK’s funeral and the inaugural Parade of Richard Nixon. And from his days tracking Gemini and Apollo missions, pictures from the South Pacific…..from the Island of Truk to Iwo Jima. I have never looked at Dad’s photography as art but more of a documentary of his and our life in pictures.
Honestly my first endeavor into real photography came in 1986 in Colorado Springs for the World Professional Cycling Championships on both road and track. So abysmal were my efforts I trashed all my photographs and sold my camera. A few years later my love of bicycle racing took me and my new Nikon to the Tour de France. The Tour, as a few of you have experienced, is one of the world’s greatest athletic events as well as the world’s biggest international tailgate parties. It is where communities of a thousand people perched high in the Alps turn into temporary cities of more than a million as the Tour moves through. It is here I became a photographer!
Since that time, and only because I loved it, I have photographed the great cities of Europe, the ruins of great civilizations. I have been to China, I have been to Cuba, I have slept on the Serengeti and have enjoyed photographing military aircraft and people. This was my avocation not my profession. About 20 years ago I started what would turn out to be a fairly successful medical education company where we built curriculums alongside some of the country’s brightest thought leaders to teach health care professionals. As fate would have it I was first diagnosed with cancer, shortly after I was hospitalized with severe blood and bone infections and last but not least I developed a strange and debilitating neuro disorder which took the brightest of the bright 4 years to diagnose! Needless to say my traveling the country and world days were over as were my days of getting out of bed by myself. This is the personal gulag of my life.
Years have passed and whereas I remained diminished, the illness has been arrested for now and I am fairly functional. The question was, at this point, what can I do? Because I could physically and because I have spent 30 years learning my way around a whole bunch of cameras, I decided Photography might just be the door God opened as my previous door was closed. So, for my wife and my awesome kids and for myself to be useful… here I am! Please consider us for your personal and professional photography needs!
Fun story about my photography. So the white guy here is my dad. He is on a South Pacific Atoll named Truk. Truk was a heavily fortified Japanese outpost and the remnants of their occupation remain. The gentlemen whose boat he is on are pearl divers. As the story goes there giant 1000 pound grouper sneak up behind these divers and suck them in. They of course never made it to the dinner table that night.
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