Spokane, Washington established photographer Chip Phillips began his connection with pictures from 2006 when his dad gave him his old Pentax Spotmatic film SLR camera. Processor was immediately hooked, and soon made the transition to electronic. Given his lifelong love of the outdoors, he obviously made the progression to focusing on landscape photography. Chip’s images have been published in various books and magazines, including Outdoor Photographer, National Geographic, Popular Photography and Imaging, Digital Photography, Digital Photo, and Digital Camera Magazine. In 2009, Chip won second and first place from the landscapes group of Digital Camera magazine’s Photographer of the Year contest. Processor is proud to be a founding member ofphotocascadia, a team comprising a number of the top landscape photographers in the Pacific Northwest.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I Can’t learn what it had to teach, and not, Once I came to die, discover that I hadn’t lived”