Footprints thru a life in Photography

My father introduced me to photography when I was 12 years old. In junior and senior high school I worked as photographer on the yearbook and literary magazine. As a Navy Photographer, I spent 2 years in Japan and 2 years in California. Back home in Michigan, I worked the night shift at a photo lab and began to shoot architecture and commercial jobs during the day. At Ford Motor Company I worked as a darkroom photo technician and advanced to photographer while learning High Speed Film at the Ford Crash Barrier. A similar position opened at Chrysler in 1998, and in 2000, I was converted to full time employee status. At Chrysler Photographic I had many responsibilities: high speed video, real time video, on board video with lipstick cameras and of course stills, shooting, printing, editing, and uploading to servers and web sites for internal publications and documentation.

Gunther Schabestiel

Commerce Township, MI

guntherphoto@me.com