He has been involved in photography since high school. His career started in New York City in 1979 working with large format (11x14 and 8x10) cameras doing catalog photography (think Montgomery Ward, JC Pennys, etc.). From there he went on to still life advertising photography. Then he discovered computers and broke away from photography for a while to work in a design and typesetting company. That led him to a 20 year career at Adobe Software in their Seattle, WA office. He retired from Adobe in 2014 but remained in Seattle, where he resides today. In the late 1990s John found his way back into photography, but this time photographing people instead of products.