Kevin Batchelor Photography

I have spent most of my life living in the country so I guess it is only fitting that I love nature & wildlife photography. At around the age of 14, I got to use my dad’s “real” camera for the first time. It was a Pentax SLR and he taught me about the different film speeds, aperture, and shutter speed. After using dad’s camera it was a done deal, I was completely hooked on photography. In college, I got my own Pentax SLR and started off on my photography adventure. That camera served me well for over a decade. When digital came out I jumped on the first one and bought the Sony Digital Mavica. It saved the image files onto a 3.5″ floppy drive. Then around 2007 or 2008, my photography world changed. I dropped bank on a shiny new Nikon D80 DSLR with several lenses to go with it. Finally, I had a digital camera that could do everything my old Pentax could do. I was able to get the stunning vistas (which most of the previous point and shoot cameras could do) and more importantly… the close-up macro shots. I was in digital heaven. It wasn’t long after that my trusty old Pentax was retired. Also, around 2008 is when I started to sell my images professionally. My first image to sell was from an amazing “bucket list” trip that fulfilled a childhood dream. I posted a few of the images from that wolf trip in one of the online forums I belonged to. Two people from different sides of the country requested I make prints and sell them the photos for their wall. Those two sales are what started my journey into professional photography. Another couple of proud moments in my photography career were when my Purple Spotted Pit Viper image was chosen for a reptile calendar, and one of my Honeybee images had been published in Countryside magazine, a nationally sold publication. Now I put my images on a wide variety of products so everyone can enjoy their beauty.