ERIK KELLAR

Biography

Managing editor of visuals Erik Kellar

Erik Kellar is an award-winning photographer in Naples, Fla., and is the managing editor of visuals for the Naples Daily News. Prior to turning his talents to photojournalism, Kellar specialized in world-class food, model and product photography and managed some of the largest advertising studios in New York City. A native Neapolitan, Kellar began his photography career immediately after graduating from Naples High School in 1990, and furthered his studies at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona Beach Community College. Kellar is an active fan of mountain biking and road cycling, yes on of those Lance Armstrong guys. Kellar also enjoys his time with his wife Elizabeth Kellar a freelance writer and his dogs.

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Kellar's (Favorite) Familiar Quotations:

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

----Edwin Land Inventor of the Polaroid Camera

" I tried to stop riding once, and I just got depressed. One of the nicest things in the world is to go out and climb a mountain ... look at the scenery ... talk to no one ... freewheel it home. And all of your problems of the day are gone.

-----" Phil Liggett, Outside magazine, July 2004

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