About Curtis Visuals-Adventure and Lifestyle Photography

Living in NYC and working for EDS as a computer field engineer covering Manhattan and Newark airport for American Airlines on 9/11 created a paradigm shift in my thinking.  It forced me to evaluate what I was doing with my life and demonstrated quite forcefully that you must pursue your passions, not waiting until "someday" arrived.  

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My passions are my family, travel, adventure sports, photography, and medicine.  In January of 2009 the opportunity presented itself to leave my position as a senior project manager at HP, allowing me to complete my bachelors degree in biology at SUNY Cortland.  Little did I know that in one 24 hour period I would have another of those defining life moments. I ended my career of 9 years, turned 40, and lost one of my partners on the ambulance service were I work part time as a Paramedic to a gunshot wound inflicted by his patient.  Following this emotional day I spent the next year and a half completing my bachelors degree and determining that what I wanted do in the next chapter of my life.  

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My decision was to spend it documenting and telling the stories of people embracing their passions in the great outdoors.   I have found that the world is full of amazing people and places whose stories have yet to be told.  A career spent bringing those stories to the world fit with my goals in life.

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I am fortunate to have an amazing family who all embrace their own passions and support me to the fullest in pursuing mine.

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I began my full time photography career in June of 2011 after years of photographing subjects from weddings, landscapes, news and sports on a part time basis.  

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I am a member of ASMP and recently began working on the Western NY chapter's web and social media committee.

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I am available for assignments globally.  

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