Jim
Connolly was born in Washington, DC and raised on the shores of the
Severn River in Annapolis Maryland. Upon completion of high school, he
joined the Marine Corp and worked in the aviation field. While
stationed in North Carolina, he started working in the base photo lab
learning a skill he would use the rest of his life.
After
serving his time in the Marines he enrolled in the Corcoran College of
art and design taking several courses in photography and darkroom
techniques, while working for the US News service in Washington, DC as
a news photographer in the National Press building covering anything
and everything from corporate news to Presidential visits.
In 1975 Jim opened his own photography firm doing commercial photography. After
several years of shooting department store catalogs and advertising he
started specializing in jewelry pictures using 4x5 and 5x7 format
cameras. He did work for some of the most prominent jewelry stores in
the Washington, Baltimore area.
In
1982, with digital photography just beginning to show up as a medium
for the professional photographer, Jim enrolled in college, taking
several courses in both digital photography and digital printing and
design. Today he uses a digital camera, and almost all printing is done
on a computer using Photoshop.
Art
and landscape photography was always Jim's first love. His art
photography has won many awards on both sides of the Bay Bridge. His
favorite subjects have always been the Chesapeake Bay, it’s wet lands
and the old farms of the Eastern shore. He is always looking for a
subject that could be used in an essay, recording every angle and
sometimes revisiting the same location dozens of times at different
times of the day and year.
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