Jim Emery has a passion for photography and digital imaging. While he works full-time for a major airline in the Washington DC region, much of his spare time is spent developing his photographic vision. A description of his style might make reference to "a sense of place", and folks sometimes describe his photographs as painterly.

Jim first became interested in photography as a young boy on Long Island. His first picture was taken with his brother's Kodak Instamatic 44 camera, and he's loved taking pictures ever since. He first picked up his primary tool--a 35mm camera--while sifting through some old boxes that contained his father's old camera gear. He shot a roll of color slide film and saw the possibilities. He was about 10 at the time.

Sports, girls, and other diversions prevented Jim's serious interest in photography from evolving early on, and it wasn't until another brother passed on his Pentax ME Super system that Jim began shooting in earnest in 1985.

After a series of false career starts, Jim dove headlong into the photographic arts, enrolling in a local community college program where he was consistently inspired and where he stretched his artistic muscles. The progressive curriculum included a serious venture into the world of digital imaging in which Jim has been engaged ever since. Jim has left the chemical darkroom behind, and feels far more artistically empowered in the digital realm.

Recently, Jim has been interested primarily in recording the landscape while travelling with his wife, Chris. He's particularly interested in relationships between historical objects and the landscape. Chris is a talented photographer herself, but is much more leisurely in her photographic endeavors. She often acts as Jim's all-important second set of eyes, and his greatest fan. Together they make their home in northern Virginia.