Gregory is an award-winning Photographer. Born in Los Angeles, his family moved to San Diego in the late 1950’s, and Gregory has made this his home ever since. He is a graduate of Los Angeles City College with a major in History. Gregory began his interest in photography early on but was detoured by his first love, Graphic Arts. Gregory got his feet wet when he was in junior high school learning to set type, and he had mastered the California job case by the time he was fourteen years old. Letterpress printing came easy for him and led him down the path to becoming an Offset Pressman. Gregory gained his journeymanship and spent seven years as a pressman until he transitioned into the prep-department where he worked on his second journeymanship as a four-color Stripper making the Artist concepts work in print. For the next twenty-five years, he worked for some of the largest companies in the city and became one of San Diego’s top four-color Strippers.

For years Gregory dabbled in film photography in and out of the darkroom, but it wasn’t until the digital age that Gregory became enamored with photography. He said he loved it because of its instant gratification. When he got his first camera in January 2013, he began quite modestly. Starting with a small Nikon D5100 and a couple kit lenses and a book that was bigger and heavier than all the gear combined. For the first couple of months, he put the camera on auto just to see what it would offer. But it wasn’t until he rotated into the manual mode that he took creative control of his camera. Once he was off and running, at every spare moment he was out photographing something. Soon his camera was taking him to places that he would never have thought to go. He was experiencing nature and life in a whole new way. Gregory has since added a Nikon D610 and D810 and a variety of lenses to conquer most challenges and compositions that arise. He says that he is inspired by his friends, family and the entire community of photographers.