My name is Walter Berkeley Fondren. I am a landscape photographer, a Young Life Leader , and a student at The University of Texas at Austin. My work in photography involves me travelling extensively to capture abstract aerial landscapes. My images are sold by interior designers and galleries in New York, Houston, and Los Angeles. I am also a Young Life leader in Southwest Austin at the St. Andrews high school. Lastly, I am a student at the University of Texas at Austin studying Economics.
Walter Berkeley Fondren
908A Keith Lane
Austin, Texas 78705 US
(713) 582-0977
wbfondren@comcast.net
Bachelor in Economics • May 2019
Business Foundations Certificate• May 2019
I am an abstract landscape photographer and travel extensively to capture my images. My main goal with my work is to provide less of a photo, and more of an abstract almost painterly look with the images that challenges the viewers perspective and understanding of the subject. My work is sold by interior designers and galleries in New York, Houston, and Los Angeles.
Marketing Consultant & Photographer • June 2011-Present
I managed the marketing mix and implementation for Port O' Connor Offshore Association's main event, POCO Bueno Fishing Tournament. Part of my work also included photographing the event and updating their social media.
Summer Intern • May 2017 - August 2017
As a Summer Intern at Trend Development, I worked with the companies third party partners during the new phases of development for the projects Fullbrook on Fulshear Creek, Long Meadow Farms, and the beginning stages of a new project. This included coordinating communications between Costello Engineering and Trend Development, assisting on design elements for multi-acre residential and commercial sites including lot and street layouts, and assisting on the management of the Homeowner Associations and Multiple Utility District's for the companies current developments.
Winter Intern • January 2015
Learned and mastered Petra, a program used by Citation and many other oil companies to manage their oilfield data. Transcribed 7 years’ worth of well data in the East Fitts Field in Oklahoma into Petra. Met with division reservoir engineers on a weekly basis to review projects.
Summer Intern • July 2014 - August 2014
Served as the only high school intern at Square Mile Energy. Digitized drilling les from the company’s past wells before translating them to Wellez, Square Mile’s proprietary database. Visited six separate well sites in Jefferson County where I observed two active drilling operations, two well completion operations, and two existing production sites.
Camera Operator • May 2015
Served as the camera operator alongside the Director of Photography in a professional Toyota commercial shoot titled “Swerve.” Operated the camera for 16 hours of the shoot, which included shots with actors on multi-ple takes and multiple sets.
I am an experienced photographer with a lot of experience both on ground and in helicopters and planes for aerial shoots, as well as being a skilled camera operator and drone pilot. I am proficient in the full Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint), the full Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, and InDesign), as well as Apple's Final Cut Pro X, and Apple's Motion 5. Finally, I am proficient in HTML 5 and CSS languages.
A photo I took of fog rolling over Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in the Summer of 2017./p> Photography
A photo I took of an Osprey observing the marsh as the sun sets over Gray's Beach.
PhotographyThis is a photo I took of a small house resting between the marsh and the beach of Barnstable Harbor.
PhotographyThis is a photo I took of the marsh reflecting golden light as the sun sets just over Gray's Beach and Barnstable Harbor.
PhotographyThis is a photo I took during mid day showing the beautiful sedimentary flows that exist throughout Barnstable Harbor.
PhotographyThis is a photo I took of boats anchored at Sunday Beach in Matagorda Bay./p> Photography
This is a photo I took of a sand bar in Chatham, you can see the power tha the wind and tides has over the patterned formation of the bar.
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