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1987
Ross is one of the high school photographer's
for their annual yearbook.
1992
Ross graduates from Center For Creative Studies
with a degree in Fine Art, majoring in Art Direction.
1992
Ross works at Young & Rubicam on the Lincoln
Mercury account and decides Detroit and big agencies are not for
him.
1992
Ross moves out west to Central Oregon with
a car load of friends.
1993
Ross becomes a freelance artist for the snowboard
industry.
1996
Ross produces, directs, films and edits an
internationally distributed snowboard film.
1997
Ross goes back to ad agency life at RalstonGroup
in Bend, OR.
1999
Ross meets future wife and business partner
at work.
2000
Ross and Andrea start their own ad agency called
Wordhouse Creative.
2001
Ross purchases G617 and the world of Panoscape
photography opens up.
2003
Four of Ross's Panoscapes raised $10,000 for
a children's benefit in Bend, OR :-)
2004
Ross breaks the record for the highest price
paid for an image, $4,300 at the 13 year old FRC photo auction.
2004
4 of Ross's vert pano's where used by Fotoman
Camera at the largest photo tradeshow in the world, Photokina
2004.
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Here's Ross shooting the Deshcutes River.
(Photo:Jason Mitchell)
With a bachelors degree of Fine Art in his back pocket, Ross Wordhouse
headed out west in 1992 and never looked back to his home town of Plymouth,
MI. He landed smack dab in the middle of Central Oregon with a snowboard
in one hand and a sketch book in the other. In the early days of his
career he squeaked out a living as a freelance illustrator for the snowboard
industry and a snowboard film producer for High Cascade Snowboard Camp.
It was a rough life, snowboarding during the day and illustrating or
editing a snowboard film at night. Then, in 1997, the bottom dropped
out of the snowboard market and he had to find new means of employment.
As fate would have it Ralston Group, an ad agency in Bend, was pitching
Morrow Snowboards and they needed a ringer for that market. And wouldn't
you know it, Ross just happened to be in the right place at the right
time. Full time employment for the next 3 years. Ralston was a great
learning and enlightening experience for Ross, plus he met his future
wife there.
Times change and soon Ross and his wife, Andrea, found themselves wondering
how to make their own little place in the world. They teamed up together
and started a new advertising agency called Wordhouse Creative. Work
started pouring in and soon the two found themselves buried in work.
It was great fun and exciting but Ross was still missing total creative
freedom. So he found a panoramic camera for sale on Ebay and bought
it. Now, you can find Ross in the deep backcountry of Central Oregon
taking panoramic landscape photography. His love for nature and nature photography came early in his life.
His parents taught him to respect and enjoy nature during their numerous
camping trips across America. His panoramic landscape photography reflect
that respect and enjoyment he experienced as a young boy.
Ross chose to specialize in panoramic landscape photography because
it's the only format that he feels really lets the viewer feel like
they are actually there, standing in front of this beautiful nature
scene. Ross adds "the human eyes see panoramics naturally when
they view a scene, I just wanted to use the same format that we see
with our own eyes".
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