Spotlight Profile - Chris Buhlman

It's Tamron Tuesday and the perfect time for another spotlight profile of a Tamron Image Master.  I've written a lot about the diversity of this group and today's profile of Chris Buhlman makes that point. I especially love the way he's taken his skill set and used it to give back to the community - helping to create lasting memories for so many parents and children.

On Tamron's Image Masters page he's described as...

Chris started in photography in the mid 1970s using an Ansco range finder his mother used as a student in the 1950s. Around 1983 at 19, he received a Pentax P3 as a present and has been a "Pentaxian" ever since. His dedicated imagery skills development began in the later 80's during his first deployment overseas onboard the USS Constellation as a Naval Flight Officer flying the S-3 Viking. He realized then that every moment in Naval Aviation was unique and capturing those moments were priceless.

1991 was his first magazine cover for the US Naval Institute Proceedings journal. His broadest area of published work is military aviation.  Once his children became involved, however in youth sports, acting and other activities, Chris has devoted many hundreds of hours volunteering his photographic abilities to organizations and school programs to provide a catalog of memories for countless numbers of parents and their children.

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Interested in seeing more of Chris's work? I love the way he's put his galleries together with a full series of clickable thumbnails under each category. Just click on the banner below to see more images.

Chris needs to be on your radar.  You'll find more about Chris on his website, along with images displayed in his Pentax Photo Gallery and National Geographic photo sharing site. 

Chris' Tamron Gear Box 

SP 17-50mm F/2.8 Di II (model A016)
SP 28-75mm F/2.8 Di (model A09)
SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di (model A001)
SP 90mm F/2.8 Di Macro (model 272)  

All images copyright Chris Buhlman. All rights reserved.