I received my first camera when I was 10, a Kodak X15, used a 126 sized 35mm film cartridge. I have been fixated with images ever since.  After graduating from college, I interned and apprenticed as an animation camera operator.  I worked Marron Carrel, Forox and Sicles cameras and created slides and animation sequences for corporate and PR clients.  After mastering the animation camera, I learned studio and field video production.  I learned on Ikegami cameras with the tubes an 1 inch field record decks. I worked on sitcoms with peds, and reality with hand held.  I never forgot still production so I moved on to mastering studio and field photography.  Anything from table top and studio capture to documenting the oil refining process to red carpet Hollywood. Although I own digital equipment now, I honed my skills on 35mm, 2 1/4 Hassey, 4x5 Sinar and Toyo cameras.  I also worked as the production stills photographer on motion pictures.  In 1988 I started my own company, Elliott Visuals.   Elliott Visuals  focuses on providing superior studio and event video camera operation, as well as expert pr and event photography.  Long lens in the convention center, wide angle on the red carpet or running around the reality set,  it's what I do . I love what I do.  And beacuse I love what I do, I'm good at it.  I don't sell what I can't do.  To quote a small figure from another galaxy far far away, "don't try, do."

What I do and have:

• Video Camera Operator
• Audio Visual Technician - Tape Op, Playback Op, A2, V2, P2, L2. From load in to set up to rehearsal and strike.
• Digital and film still photographer - Events, documentation, red carpet, legal, PR etc. Nikon shooter!
• Commercial Class B CDL coming 2012
• $2 million Liability Insurance
• Workers Comp. Insurance
• I am "local" in more cities
• I work non-union or union