Harold’s Creative Journey: I love exploring different cultures of our world with my wife Rita and my Nikon SLR cameras.

I try to bring back the human interest and overlaying rich textures of a different country’s lifestyle.

To capture a moment in time as I float down a river, walk a mud-street village, hike a sand dune at sunrise, stroll up a jungle trail or cruise through the workshop of a regional craftsman, is a pleasure and a dream.

It is a joy of mine to share these images with children and young students in hopes that my images will inspire a few of them to travel and explore other cultures of the world with an open mind.

I am a professional photographer with a host of Nikon digital SLR gear. As a “realist photographer”, I do not manipulate my images. I perform my minor post production in Lightroom. I do not have Photoshop on my Mac.

I am now retired and live in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with my wife.

During my career I owned a large advertising/marketing/public relations agency in Houston, Texas. I launched my 25-year professional career as the agency’s primary writer and Creative Director.

Upon retirement, in 1989, I moved full-time to the island of Martha’s Vineyard before moving to Mexico in 2001.

I was born in upstate New York in the small town of Auburn on the Finger Lakes and attended The Northwood Preparatory School in Lake Placid, New York.

My degree from the University of Florida is in Advertising and Marketing..

The inspiration for my love of photography came from my father, who was an amateur photographer. As a young child, I spent many hours in his darkroom helping him hang black & white prints with clothes pins.

Awards

Through Harold’s Lens is graciously honored to have received a host of world-wide awards.

Blog of the Year Award to Through Harold’s Lens by   Global Grazers.

Blog of the Year Award to Through Harold’s Lens by  tiny lessons blog.

Blog of the Year Award to Through Harold’s Lens by 1life196countries

Very Inspiring Blogger Award to Through Harold’s Lens by Kavi360.

Very Inspiring Blogger Award to Through Harold’s Lens by Created – Create It.

Very Inspiring Blogger Award to Through Harold’s Lens by notesfromcamelidcountry

Very Inspiring Blogger Award to Through Harold’s Lens by http://terry1954.wordpress.com

Very Inspiring Blogger Award to Through Harold’s Lens by http://takingtotheopenroad.com

Versatile Blogger Award to Through Harold’s Lens by globalexplorerclub

I Am Part Of The WordPress Family Award to Through Harold’s Lens by http://hopethehappyhugger.wordpress.com.

Liebster Award to Through Harold’s Lens by Kibogoji.

Liebster Award to Through Harold’s Lens by http://cecilia-maria.com.

Aboard Blog of the Week Selection for Through Harold’s Lens by home bound global

Featured Photographer for Through Harold’s Lens by photobotos.com

Image of the Week for Through Harold’s Lens by Atencion newspaper. San Miguel de Allende.

Image of the Week for Through Harold’s Lens by Atencion newspaper. San Miguel de Allende.

Selected Photographer for Through Harold’s Lens by poet Felicity Ann Mcinnes in her sensuous poetry series “The Lusts of Man”.

Selected Photographer for Through Harold’s Lens by The San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Garden Club.

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