A natural disaster nearly 40 years ago motivates young news photographer to open his own business

It was May 25, 1980, and Mount St. Helens had been erupting for a week in southwestern Washington and would become one of the most destructive and significant volcanic eruptions in United States history. A young 22-year-old photographer for a local newspaper, Robert Severi, circled the volcano in a small plane with a Nikon F3 […]

5 tips for beginner concert photographers

I got my first camera at 13 as a Christmas gift form my parents. My interest grew through high school from taking a bunch of photography classes, but I had always struggled in finding the right subject— what I wanted to shoot. Then I went to a bunch of concerts at a variety of Charleston […]