Yes, we are dog people. This is Zassi, our standard poodle travel companion.
Meet Jim and Frieda
Frieda and I grew up in Macon, Georgia, met when we were ten years old, started dating at 13 and married when we were 20. It must have been the right thing to do since it has lasted over 60 years and we’re both hoping for another 60.
I attended Mercer University in Macon ostensibly majoring in history but really specializing in ROTC. I was commissioned in 1967 and spent the next 29 years traveling to Viet Nam, Europe and lots of locations in the US making photographs everywhere we went. Those years of Army life flew by, and we found ourselves finishing up at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama in 1996. We decided to call this home.
A few years before retirement from the Army I decided I wanted something different. I had always enjoyed photography, and I thought that was where I wanted to go. To prepare I went to the Washington School of Photography for 14 months, two nights a week and several Saturdays. When I got out of the Army, we opened our own studio and Photography by Jim and Frieda was born. Twenty-one years later we decided we had photographed enough two-year-olds so we closed the studio and began traveling and photographing even more in the great outdoors. This led to Lowe Mill where we offer our landscape and wildlife images for sale in Studio 120.
Our Butterfly
When Frieda and Jim began dating about seventy years ago, Frieda started drawing little pictures, “doodling” we called it back then. She took the lower-case script f and upper case script J and connected them to be a butterfly. We soon began using this as a symbol of our togetherness. So, in 1996 when after all the years of Army life, we decided to open our very own photography business it only seemed right, and very natural, that the butterfly would become our logo. And so, it is.