Skip
Willits is a professional photographer in Maryland
specializing in maritime, wildlife, and lighthouse
photography. He has been published in many national
magazines and is the publisher and co-publisher
of numerous regional lighthouse and wildlife posters.
He has led a number of tours for the Smithsonian
Institution and produced multimedia slide shows
for them and others.
As
an exhibitor at the prestigious Easton Waterfowl
Festival since 1990, Skip won the 1996 add card
with a snowy egret image taken at Assateague Island
in Virginia. He has given photography courses at
this show, at the Wildfowl Trust on Kent Island
Maryland for the Smithsonian and numerous other
groups in Maryland. He is available for photographic
assignments, slide show creation, and speaking engagements.
A
businessman in Chestertown, Maryland...Skip currently
owns a marketing company that is devoted to the
promotion of his and other artist’s photographic
images. As co-publisher of a series of state lighthouse
posters, Skip has accounts from coast to coast as
well as from Florida to Maine. He has sold his art
to such corporate accounts as Host Marriott, Rusty
Scupper Restaurant and Dupont’s Chesapeake
Farms, providing images for interior design, books,
magazines, and brochures. Skip wholesales and retails
original photographs in the form of slides and flat
art, packaged in mats, frames, and on CD’s.
These products are developed for the individual
and retail buyer or customized for corporate and
organizational product formats. He creates CD screen
savers from his own and antique images. He has over
19000, 35mm images in his library.
Making
use of the newest marketing techniques to promote
his craft, Skip has a keen eye both behind the camera
and in the gallery. He serves over 100 accounts
using the Internet, many local and regional shows
such as the Waterfowl Festival, corporate contacts,
retail outlets, publishers, and galleries to promote
the art of photography.
Skip
has been published in Ducks Unlimited, The Smithsonian
Associate, Harrowsmith Country Life Magazine, and
the Shoreman Magazine covers for two years to mention
just a few of his photo credits. A Chesapeake Bay
lighthouse book, “LIGHTHOUSES OF THE CHESAPEAKE”,
has been published exhibiting his images. Another
book featuring a majority of his images is “SOUTHEASTERN
LIGHTHOUSES”. He has also written a number
of articles published by regional magazines in both
Maryland and New Jersey.
