Who is Glenn? Glenn is a self-taught photographer and photo-artist who lives in Northern New Hampshire in the U.S. with his wife Marlo, daughter Maia, and Sade, the family dog. Glenn and Marlo started GlennNorrisPhotography officially in 2007 after selling their previous business, 'The Maia Papaya' cafe. What is Glenn's philosophy for photography? Glenn's photography is all about connecting people and their spaces. Our spaces - business and home - are the outward expression of our personality, ideas, and feelings. To understand the person, we must connect them to their space. In "The Cobbler's Workshop" it is impossible to separate Roy, the man, from his space... the shop was his life for forty years! As for Business Portraits, a good business owner knows that having a successful business is about creating an idea/feeling of a 'little world,' - a world that customers yearn to return to again and again. The biggest corporations - Disney, Home Depot, Walmart - understand this concept of creating a world for their customers to get lost in; and so can you! For People Portraits the concept of connecting people to their spaces is the same. However, there is so much more! While we all love to see photographs of Dad working the backyard barbeque grill or the family cuddled up to the family dog, that "personal space" can also mean out on the lake in the family sailboat, hiking in the mountains, or sitting at the local diner having a Sunday morning breakfast... Think of it like this: Glenn Norris is your personal biographer for the day and you are giving future generations of your family the gift of understanding who their great-grampa or great-grandma really were! What are Glenn's influences? Glenn's influences come more from the world of fine art painting than from photography. Glenn studies the masters, Rembrandt and Norman Rockwell especially, to draw out any technique that may help his images go from 'photograph' to 'work of art'. Rembrandt's use of shadow to direct the eye toward the light and Rockwell's techniques of shadow and highlight clipping are two examples of ideas that Glenn works to incorporate into his images. However, it is a quote from one of the masters of photography, Ansel Adams, that truly sums up Glenn Norris' intent for his work: "I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."