Chamber Featured Member of the Month

Mark Gardner is the SJI Chamber of Commerce Featured Member of the Month…

Mark Gardner – Contributed photo

Mark Gardner, photographer, has been creating art from life with photography since 1994.  Today, Mark is a full-service provider of studio and location photography for families, individuals, businesses and publications.  He combines passion, artistic expression and technical skill to create images for clients and personal expression.

In his professional work, Mark primarily photographs people to create both traditional and lifestyle portraits for personal, editorial and commercial use. Mark also shoots fine art and craft, products, classic and sports cars, and architecture.  In his personal work, Mark photographs landscapes, nature, people and culture, especially in the San Juan Islands, the Pacific Northwest or wherever his travels take him. Mark also loves to experiment in the digital dark room to make images that push the boundaries of traditional photography.

Mark is based in the San Juan Islands in Washington State, where he has a fully equipped studio.  He started his business, Photography by Mark Gardner, on San Juan Island in 2006. He’s provided images for a myriad of clients ranging from portraits for families to location images for resorts to studio shots for artists.  He’s published a coffee-table book of images of the San Juan Islands, and a how-to book on outdoor and travel photography with Art Wolfe.  These books and Mark’s fine art prints are available through his website: www.photographybymarkgardner.com. Mark also maintains a website that provides self-service, stock images of the San Juan Islands: www.imagesofthesanjuans.com.

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