The purpose in maintaining
Napaphotos.com is to provide an affordable, easy to find, easy to use internet presence
for the photographers and photo related businesses in the beautiful wine growing region of
Northern California. The photographers and associated services listed in this site are working
professionals. Some are seasoned pros, and some are relatively new to the
business. All the photographers have proven their ability to take good pictures
consistently. They all love what they do.
I have lived in the Napa Valley for 45 years, and made my living as a photographer here
since 1978. In this year, 2006 I celebrate my 28th year in business, and I am amazed by the rapid
growth in technology over the last several years that has enabled the internet to truly
blossom.
I remember the stone age of personal computing ( for me, 1983 ) when I first logged onto
the Compuserve system on a 300 baud modem, and a Radio Shack 16K Color Computer. It was a marvelous
experience even then, and lasted until my first online phone bill came to me. There was no
such thing as local access, and I had to dial a Palo Alto phone number to log on. It was
tremendously expensive, and I reluctantly backed away until a time when affordable
"web surfing" was possible. The internet was inaccessible to the general public
then, and devoted exclusively to the information exchange of member universities,
government, and military.
In the relatively ancient year of 1992, I bought my first 486, and joined the thousands
who had begun to move in with the old Arpanet standbys on the Information Super Highway,
and by DOS terminal (no graphics back then) began to see the potential in
this wonderful world wide medium. I got "flamed" by angry old timers
when I sent my first commercial message across the Delphi system in 1993. It
was simply an announcement that Pryts Photo Service was online. It was my web
version of the pre-historic human hand painting in a French cave, and said,
"I am here"
I registered my domain, www.napaphotos.com,
in 1996, and found myself one of millions who had come online.
The rest is history, for we are the pathfinders. We communicate our
ideas, products, and services on an equal basis with the big boys, to an
exponentially growing world wide audience. These ARE
the days, and THIS DOTCOM is
still chuggin along.
Jim Pryts
webmaster & Founder
www.napaphotos.com
UPDATE: Jim and his wife Marlene will be moving to Novato, California in May 2006. Pryts Photo Service will be closing its doors forever on April 20th, 2006. Nanci Kerby will be the new owner and operator of napaphotos.com, and will continue to provide this very special web portal for the professional photographers of the Napa Valley.
napaphotos.com & Pryts Photo Service offer this listing of photographic professionals in the wine country as an aid in finding the right photographer for your purpose. I do everything in my power to assure the highest standards of quality, conduct, and professionalism in the photographers who list here. However, I cannot control everything, and assume no responsibility for any part of business transactions that occur between purchasers, and sellers of photographic services other than my own.
Jim Pryts
The napaphotos.com professionals
