Hi, my name is Jeff Greenhouse. I am a photographer that specializes in high risk shots, that require me to get into situations in which most people are incapable putting themselves. Others simply avoid any environment where there is a real possibility of getting hurt, and those places are where i have been my whole life, and this is truly an aspect which separates my photography from the masses. For the last three years i have been engulfed in the world of surf photography, working with professionals in the waterproof camera housing industry at Del Mar Housing Projects. It all started when i bought a waterproof housing for my first digital SLR (a Nikon D200) from Del Mar Housings. It was the second half of what would unintentionally become a career path that I already started years prior.
At first, i was just a customer, and this purchase was just one more of the photography tools needed to start documenting my life, for my memory was not what it once was. I was hoping this would be a way I could have a lasting impressions from which i could relive my adventures. It started a couple years prior to that when i began writing an entire hand written page at the end of each day recounting the days events. It was an honest self assessment of what i did and what i learned, not only about the situation at hand, but more specifically, myself,and how i handled it. I did this everyday for about 1100 days until i both, got tired of having a constant writer's blister on the inside of my ring finger, (which i can still feel today) and enough written to put together an auto-biography. It was great having all those pages to sift back though. There was a problem with that, as I soon realized - i didn't like to read. Plus, about 500 of those pages were written while i was in a cast, so they were nearly illegible. (I had five surgeries on my right thumb due to old sports related injuries). It was around that time that I began to show in an interest in photography and my dad offered to send me his prosumer level Nikon.
Picking up the camera was just a continuation of documenting my life - and this was proving to be a much better fit. So much so, that i figured out a way to have Erik (Del Mar Housing Projects, owner) bring me on board and immerse me this new founded world to which I've always had an affinity. And I could not have made a better decision, for had I not, I am confident that I never would be where I am today. Nearly 3 years of learning every technical aspect of just about every lens under 200mm, especially my favorites, the ultra-wide angles, not to mention all the various DSLR Bodies. Along with the knowledge base i had acquired through my personal correspondence with customers and seeing each of their individual photographic style. All together the roughly 500 photographers, - professional, armature, and everything in between - has taught me to look through my camera and see things I would have never noticed on my own.
It was just about a year ago when I met, through a mutual friend , Isaac Wood, and began pursuing photography professionally. Isaac, a pro surfer, and semi-pro mountain biker (downhill, and dirt jumping) was the perfect subject for me and through his connections I was able to get my foot in the door with an international surf magazine, Slide. It was within my rookie year of shooting and submitting photos on a professional level, that i managed to get an 8-page article published. I had the opportunity to write the article as well shoot all the photos. This just reinforces that my efforts over the past 6 years of writing and learning every aspect of photography, are all coming together into a profession that was spawned from my attempt to record the adventures that make up my life. Needless to say, I have fallen right into my dream job - to get paid for doing what i would skip work to do!
Jeff Greenhouse
Owner, Greenhouse Photography, Photos Like This
info@photoslikethis.com
