William Murray

I'm a retired master of many trades. My first love and goal was to become an artist. In my last year or high school, I had three different art classes. I won the art, arts and crafts and industrial arts awards and was counseled to go to college for art. Growing up on a farm in Ohio and being from a humble country background made higher education for me only a wish. After high school I went to work as an artist for a display company in Charlotte N.C. I designed and built stage backgrounds too. I worked there for about five years and as a young married man in his twenties expecting a child I struggled to survive. I stopped and entered the sheet metal trade. As a craftsman I did pattern development and fabrication using plain geometry and trigonometry.

In the 1980 I went to college to study business and major in computers. While there I got some financial support from doing art shows in the malls and architectural renderings. A real struggle!
I also began to develop an interest in photography both for profit and as an expressive art form.
Today I'm in my late seventies, retired and can pursue my love of art and photography. Although not formally taught in any of the schools for higher learning, I have over 60 years of expe...

Two years college with a computer major.
Over 50 years as a metal worker with exceeding skill in trigonometry, welding, and polishing metals.
For over five years I owned a glass business in Clearwater Florida.
For three years I held a finish carpers license.
I was part owner of a fabric awning company in Miami.
I held a mortgage and and insurance license and worked as a financial adviser or planner. I have a photography buisness 'Memory Keepers Photography'. I have worked in an administrative capacity in disaster relief work and public service for decades. My digital files now hold many terabytes of images some which I wish to share.
Life has taught me many lessons I never could have learned in school. One central driving desire for sharing my vision through art and photography has never faded. I shoot hundreds of portraits, events for charity and wildlife images. I'm not profit driven but by love for the art.
It's time to share.
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