
Hayley Barnes
Hayley is a custom professional photographer. She has lived on three continents, including the one "down under". She began her career in the arts as a graphite artist. She received her formal art training at TAFE in Sydney, Australia. With a natural talent for "seeing" composition and perspective, she has developed skills over the past fifteen years in rendering a unique interpretation of her subjects in graphite. From time to time, she has art pieces on exhibit at The Art Alliance Center at Clear Lake. She has won several awards for her work.
Hayley has shown an interest in photography as a hobby for
much of her life (e.g. at family or church events, etc., she has
always been the one behind the camera). But her passion for photography as a profession began to really build about five years ago, when she received her first digital camera (Sony
DSC-F717). She soon found that much of the same creative skills in composition, perspective, and light she had developed
through her work in graphite, apply equally in photography. Moreover, with the digital technology that exist today, the doors to marvelous new possibilities in artistic rendering are standing wide open. Hayley is gifted in the arts has an eye for capturing the unique personality of everyone she photographs.
Steve Barnes
Steve delights in just about anything creative. He has
been a guitarist for more than 25 years. As a teenager he co-founded and performed in a Christian band called "Exodus".
In more recent years, Steve's passion for creativity has driven him to invest countless hours in designing and building (ongoing project) a backyard
tropical paradise that is the talk of friends and family alike ...
Not to mention, awesome backdrop areas for portrait photography.
Steve's interest in photography began as a boy growing up in Northeastern Oklahoma. He studied
photography through his high school's gifted program. He shared this early
interest in photography as a hobby with his dad.
In college Steve
studied math, science, and computers and graduated with a BS in chemistry. He worked as a lab technician in major chemical companies for over 15 years. Steve has a strong technical background, a passion for being creative, a talent for detail work, and he throws his heart and soul into achieving nothing but total excellence in every endeavor.
Steve handles marketing, equipment acquisition, accounting, and gardening. He designed, built, and maintains our websites. He is skilled
in photography, and has written and published several recent articles.