Dale Taylor Photography

         Dale Taylor gets bored easily. Trained as a musician and musicologist to perform early music on period instruments, he has also worked as a hand shoe and harnessmaker at Colonial Williamsburg, computer programmer, manager, musical instrument builder and repairman, blacksmith, writer and run a free-lance photography business and studio.

        When he wrote an article for Early Ameican Life and found out that the photographers got paid better, he bought some equipment and books and began teaching himself. Since the books said glass and metals were among the hardest things to shoot, he tackled them first, and still enjoys the challenges they provide.

       This resulted in many adventures ranging from photographing President Bush (Sr.) in the White House during Desert Storm to standing ten feet inside a hot air balloon while a 12,000,000 BTU propane torch was fired under his arm (if that's what it takes to get the balloon up for a picture....) to trying to take photos from the middle of a lake while the boat he was working from was (not too slowly) filling with water. His work has appeared in books, magazines, newspapers and advertising. He has taught photography for the College of William and Mary.

        He left photography as digital was introduced, but recently moved back into it, opening a general studio in El Paso, TX. He has a portable operation which enables him to come to the client.

Dale's coffee-table photo book A Personal Williamsburg is published by RJI Publishing, and copies can be found or requested through your local bookseller. ISBN 978-1-885184-13-9. It contains 100 images originally taken on film of the restored colonial town museum Colonial Williamsburg during the late 1980s and early 1990s when he lived there along with reminiscences of working there. He is also the author of A Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Colonial America 1607-1783 through Writer’s Digest Press, a division of Penguin Books / Random House.