I fell in love with photography very young. Both of my parents were avid amateur photographers. In fact, they met in a camera store where my mom worked behind the counter. As a little kid, there were always cameras in their hands, and I was fascinated.
I got my very own first camera at age 5. It came as a birthday present and was part of a “secret agent” package (James Bond being a big deal then) that included a plastic briefcase with a rubber knife, secret decoder glasses, the camera, and a few other items that young secret agents needed. I quickly grew bored with the briefcase and other stuff (though I kept the rubber knife for a long time) but I loved that camera. It was just a black plastic box with no controls besides a shutter button and a knob to wind the film, and it leaked light like a sieve. But I was hooked.
Fast forward a whole bunch of years, and I’m still hooked. Nowadays, in my professional life, I design things and I talk for a living. I spend most of my working time designing and producing large business conferences and live events. These are usually a lot like television awards shows you've seen except: a) the stuff I work on isn't being broadcast, or broadcast to the public, anyway, and b) there are usually few celebrities; just corporate people talking about corporate things. More on that can be found here. I'm also a voice actor/voiceoverist. Much of the voice work I do is narration: e-learning, training videos, web videos, application walk-throughs and such. There's a link in the menu above for more information on that, or click here. In past lives, I've been a major market disc jockey, a commercial photographer, and an agency art director. In my spare time, I like to ride my bike and hang out with my family at a beach. Aside from traveling way too much for work, I split my time between St. Louis, Missouri and Northport, Michigan. And I still take lots of pictures — usually with much better cameras than the light-leaky plastic box.
About this site: Some of the content in the Journal section here is old. I started a photo blog around 2004, and then transitioned to Posterous (an early Tumblr competitor that is long dead) for several years. Rather than just throw all that content away, I imported it here. Some of the old posts don’t display properly and I’ve never taken the time to go fix things. But I still have ‘em — you know, just in case.
And, should you be so inclined, you can also find me on Instagram (@bobransom) and Twitter (also @bobransom).