Graphic Design

Dave began learning graphic design in the 1980's while working at Photographix, a photo lab in Amarillo, and began learning graphic design in the 1990''s. In 1999 Dave started a graphic design and video transfer business. In 2009 a new name DC Graphics and Photography was chosen to include photography services and recently video production services.

Graphic design services have included, ads, banners and buttons for the web. Graphic design has included logos, business cards, CD/DVD case design, letterheads, envelopes, flyers, brochures and other business promotion items.

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Type of Graphic Software: Photoshop
Type of Graphic Design: websites, business cards



Photography, Video and DVD Production

Dave began his photography career in the early 1970's by working at a camera store part-time, Canadian Camera Center in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Formal photography education has included basic and advanced studies with hands on field trips under well known German photographer Karl Sommerer at Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology in the mid 1970's in Ontario, Canada. Dave feels it was a great privilege to study under and learn from Karl Sommerer, being a twice recipient of the prestigious Canadian Photographer of the Year award (1973 & 1984)

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In 1978 Dave was accepted for a job as a photographer for Wycliffe Bible Translators and International Society of Linguistics and worked in the Republic of Cameroon, West Africa where duties included travel and photo documentation for publications and setup of a darkroom and conversion of documents to microfiche and photo documenting linguistic and Bible translation at different locations. In 1980 Dave lived in Toronto, Ontario where he worked at a photo enlarging company helping prepare large photos for public display on buses, in subways and other public places.

Also in 1980 Dave met his future wife Beverly, a Texas resident and moved to Canyon, Texas where they were married. In the early 1980's they lived in Lubbock, TX and Phoenix, AZ where Dave worked at photo labs and in 1984 they moved back to Canyon, TX where Dave worked at a photo lab from 1984 to 1999 doing assorted types of work including film processing and work for professional photographers, ad agencies and the general public, custom printing, restoration of old photos, location photography and videography and editing. Dave feels God has blessed him with a skill in images. In 1989 Dave started a small video production business and in 2009 he began offering DVD services including transfer of videos and photos to DVD and DVD/CD duplication services.

Their son Matthew was born in 1986 and is a graduate student and employed at University of North Texas and former president of NAGPS.

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