Chaucer Wells Photography

Specialties

Headshots, product photography, business portraits, fine art portraiture, and special projects for marketing and commercial photography. I shoot both in the studio and on location. Each client gets personalized attention, and projects are customized to meet your specific needs.

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History

Established in 2011.

I first started using my camera to earn money in high school, shooting local sporting events and working after-​hours at a small-​town newspaper darkroom. Over the years I would return to photography time and again with varying degrees of seriousness, sometimes working for pay and sometimes not. It wasn’t until many years later that I began to consider photography as a viable full-​time career. After spending more than a decade pushing numbers around in the finance world, I finally left corporate-​land and switched to photography as a full-​time business in 2011.

Meet the Business Owner

Patrick S.

Business Owner

I invented the name Chaucer Wells years ago when I was working at an East-​coast financial services firm. I wanted a pseudonym that would allow me to pursue my artistic craft while keeping my photography life separate from my suit-​and-​tie life. The name is taken from the names of two literary giants, Geoffrey Chaucer and H.G. Wells. My given name is Patrick.

Photography masters who have influenced me:

Lewis Hine. Arnold Newman. IIrving Penn Walker Evans. Jim Shaughnessy. Richard Avedon. Henri Cartier-​Bresson.

My personal interests reach well beyond photography. Other passions include music, technology, ecology, and science. I’m not sure if this makes me well-​rounded or frightfully eccentric.