A graduate of Montana State University, Tom has spent 25 years in the commercial production business, crafting advertisements for leading brands. His photography has been featured in "Photography Masterclass Magazine", "F-Stop Magazine", and Dodho Magazine. He was shortlisted as Photographer of Year at Black & White Magazine and was a finalist, at the Siena International Photo Awards, Siena, Italy. Tom is a former National Park Service Artist-in-Residence, and his resulting self-published book, "Mojave Moonlight", was selected to participate in Boston’s 2014 Photobook International Juried Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography. His portrait work was recently accepted into the National Photographic competition and exhibition at the Photo Spiva Center For The Arts in Joplin, Missouri and was awarded a Silver Medal at the San Francisco International Photography Exhibition.