Please visit me at <a href="http://www.jonvangilderphotography.smugmug.com

I am a photographer who has seen much and still sees much - I hope! I trained (back in the days of film) with Floyd Gardner. He was brutal to work for, one develops a thick skin in this industry, but an amazing teacher with a gift for seeing beauty in the ordinary things of life. I have been married to the same wonderful woman for 26 years and we have 7 children.

I have recently returned to the world of photography - ran a studio in Tucson, AZ back in the '80's. I shoot with Nikon bodies and lenses.

"Where there is no elegance of the heart...there is no elegance." Yves Saint Laurent