Camera in hand, Greg Wise captures slices of life in Wyoming

Photography is not only a interest for Greg Wise. It’s additionally a approach that he offers again to his neighborhood.

No matter what time of day or evening that you simply meet up with him, there’s a very good probability he’s bought his digital camera.

Watch Greg Wise describe his love of pictures:

Super Senior: Camera in hand, Greg Wise captures slices of life in Wyoming

“I love night photography. I love the Northern Lights. I do them right out here at Deaver Reservoir quite a bit. The other thing I really enjoy is going to Yellowstone quite a few times a year—I’ve been 14 times already this year,” he says.

It’s interest that Greg first bought into about 25 years in the past.

“I bought my first one back in 1999, and over the years, I kept stepping up. It was mostly my family that I was shooting at first,” he recalled.

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He has definitely put his digital camera gear to good use.

“I have well over two million pictures on six or seven hard drives,” he says.

You get the image. He takes quite a lot of photos.

“The Northern Lights, grizzly bears and mountain goats are my top three things. I’ve also gotten a lot of sunsets that I’ve always been so proud of,” he says.

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Many of his panorama and climate photographs have appeared on Q2’s weathercasts over time.

And if Powell High School is taking part in most any sport, you’ll Greg on the sidelines. It’s one thing he began doing a number of years again when his personal youngsters had been in class there.

“When the last one graduated from high school, I assumed I was done. And people approached me and said, please don’t quit. You take pictures of our kids, and I got involved there shooting high school sports,” he says.

He additionally shoots sports activities for Northwest Community College.

But it’s not simply sports activities. You additionally discover him snapping photographs of Powell’s proms, commencement, and performs—photographs he then shares.

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“Just knowing that I’m getting pictures that mom and dad can’t get with their cell phones—I can reach out with my lenses. I just enjoy doing it. I feel like I’m shooting my own kids because I know so many of the kids,” Greg says.

A interest which may really feel like a job if he didn’t take pleasure in it a lot.

“There are days when I get a little frustrated because I can’t keep up. People ask me, are those pictures coming up pretty soon? But for the most part, people are very good to me, and I really appreciate that,” he says.

Greg grew up within the Minneapolis space and owned a few Sears catalog shops earlier than he moved to Powell and ran a furnishings and equipment retailer earlier than his retirement.

His pictures has develop into a good looking approach of connecting with a neighborhood he says he’s come to like.

“That’s been important to me, so I just found it was a way to pay back,” he says.

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