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The Importance Of

Finding A Professional

Photographer To

Capture The Perfect

Version Of You

by Terry Brennan

My name is Terry Brennan and I LeMoyne College together in nearly anyone can put pieces of
recently relocated to the Valley – Syracuse, NY, although he is now wood together using a hammer
another invader from the East! I an Arizonan through and through and nails – it doesn’t make them
grew up and spent the majority having lived here for the past 18 a finish carpenter – so it is with
of my life in the suburbs of the years. He convinced me to travel my work.
Washington D.C. area. I am a out on several long weekends for
single father to two wonderful the book, eventually convincing So why me? What is special
grown children, Erin and Nathan, me that moving here was in my about what I do that you should
who remain in Maryland. I have a best interest. Judging from the pay attention? Sticking with
background in medical/scientific scenic beauty I’ve seen and the the carpenter analogy, if you
research in cancer, AIDS, and quality of the entrepreneurs had a project that needed a
biodefense that spans from and business owners I’ve met in fence, a she-shed, a tree house,
the wet laboratory to program Network Together and Eliances, crown molding and custom built
management. I hold an MPH it was a great choice. cabinets but could only hire one
degree from the Bloomberg carpenter, wouldn’t you want the
School of Public Health at the So yes, I own a camera…or 2 one who can do all those tasks
Johns Hopkins University. That or 5! To some that makes me from the complex to the simple?
was my former career, working at a photographer – I am not I have proven results in multiple
and with the National Institutes among that crowd even though photographic arenas including
of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. my business is Life Scenes nature/landscapes, sports,
Photography. I had to name it musical performance, portraiture,
The impetus for moving to the something and while “selfies” are wedding and corporate events.
Phoenix area was to photograph nice, they cannot fully capture the I have photographed many
and create the coffee table book scope and depth of those special notable figures including Pope
titled “The Saguaros Speak!...” moments in life – no matter Francis when he visited the US
It was just completed and will how many bodies you’re able to Capitol, motivational speakers
be available soon and found squeeze onto the screen of your Lisa Nichols and Les Brown
everywhere (if we market it phone! A camera is a tool of my (separately), musicians Althea
right)! My co-author, Anthony trade and photos are the medium Rene, Chuck Brown, the band
Williams, and I attended where my art is expressed. Just as Acoustic Alchemy,

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