ABOUT TOM

My first meaningful experience with a camera was in a recording studio with Bernie Sanders, on a strict deadline for him to record as fast as possible and get out. By day, I'm an audiobook producer - I did sound, and that was it. Not lights, not photography, nothing.

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But I was producing Bernie's audiobook, and my boss at the time decided, for whatever reason, not to hire a photographer for this session. He stuck a camera in my hands, and I was pretty confident the big button next to my index finger was the trigger. This was apparently enough to qualify me to take photos.

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It wasn't a total disaster, but I'm chalking that up to luck. A trial by fire - and I had just barely passed.

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After that, I was gifted an old DSLR by my partner. I learned it inside and out. Combining it with my love for live music suddenly became my goal, and once I started winning more battles against poor stage lighting than losing, I was hooked. Bands started re-posting my photos of their shows. This was the beginning of a new hobby, and that hobby turned into a passion, and that passion got really expensive real quick.

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Terminal Bloom Photography was born - you'll find me photographing concerts in the sweaty back rooms of heavy metal bars, authors and audiobook narrators in the studio, and portraits of anyone willing to pose for one. 

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I hope you like what you see.