About Us at Tamarack Wedding Videos

About "Us"

Tamarack Wedding Videos started up in 2009 but I go back into the dark ages of analog 2" Quad video tape, B&W cameras and telecine machines... that were all the rage in ...1976.

I'm a recently retired chef that started his professional life four score and... well not quite that long ago. A graduate of the USN's Advanced Electronics Computer program. I then went to a small but prestigious photography school after turning down a full scholarship at Rochester (NY) School of Photography & graduated with honors. My first job after school was as a professional fashion photographer. No I didn't get to shoot those exquisite clothes horses for Vogue. I shot bras, panties & socks for a major N.Y.C. catalog house with accounts like Lane Bryant, Sears, Monkey Ward & JC Penny. I also was their number one color film corrector/printer.

Moving on I started my own SOHO, N.Y.C. custom color photo printing service for nit picky photographers & general off the wall artists (like myself). I did have one, one man show in NYC of 8x10 inch Ektachrome transparencies (slides). I also made some experimental "art" films, animations & videos.

Went back to school in N.Y.C. majoring in film production. Worked on a few student films and minor feature films & documentaries as lighting designer and sound recorder. In 1976 I was a founding member of a group that started the very first (anywhere) public access television production company. I became the managing director & chief engineer of the first & only public access TV studio in the US. It served NYC artists and non commercial clients. We produced in-studio & on-location TV shows for NYC public access TV channels.

Moved to the mid west and interviewed for a job in TV program production. The department head that interviewed me had actually been in NYC watching the only public access TV channel in the world (at that time) when a documentary about NYC street musicians aired...once. I was the audio recording engineer that captured incredibly up close & clean music in the very "audio hostile" noisy environment of downtown NYC streets. He remembered the quality of the documentary (and especially the audio), remembered my name from the closing credits of the video & offered me the job of audio/video engineer on the spot! (for three times the money I was making at the time)

I was an audio/video engineer and video editor for nearly ten years on local & national TV shows. I worked for CBS, ABC, PBS and for many, many corporate video for clients such as Hormel, IBM, Control Data, Pillsbury, US Banks, Deluxe Checks, 3M, Prairie Home Companion, and many others.

Concurrently with my Video & Audio work I owned & operated an "analog" photo retouching business. Analog because I did it the old fashion way...with very, very tiny camel hair brushes, air brushes and dyes.

Left it all behind one day & moved and became a chef at a great restaurant, then opened my own catering company and then my own upscale restaurant. Eighteen years later I'm closing the circle... only I'm doin' it digital this time

Roy M
chief videographer