Biography Doug Jones began his photography career at the age of 19 with a 35 millimeter single lens reflex camera carried into the wilderness of California's Sierra Nevada range for the summer. He fell in love with the unspoiled solitude of clear blue sky, glacier-carved granite ramparts, and ancient pines growing out of solid rock on windswept ridges. Six years later with an Anthropology degree from the University of Washington, he emigrated to Canada during the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Doug earned a teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia the following year and embarked upon a career as an elementary school teacher in Quesnel, BC. Doug's teaching career has been varied, by turns a district librarian, founder of an outdoor education camp for elementary school children, elementary teacher-librarian, and presently a high school teacher-librarian. As a photographer, the landscape has always been Doug's central passion, but he has also photographed equestrian events, designed and created a photographic trade show diplay, served as a high school yearbook photography advisor, and volunteered as the production photographer for a community theatre company. As the end of his career as a teacher in the public school system approaches, Doug is looking forward to the full-time pursuit of his art as a landscape photographer, teaching his craft to adults, and deepening his education in the history and practice of his chosen vocation. Doug lives in the rural countryside near the Monashee Mountains of southern British Columbia, close to the wilderness that is the source of his art. |
