Photography is an obsession for me. I started taking skateboard pictures with my dad’s Nikon F when I was a teenager, graduated to fine-art photography in college, and many years later find myself shooting sports again. It’s been an interesting journey, including 7 years as a custom color printer for some very well known landscape photographers, working as a digital tech doing drum scans and LightJet prints, and since 1999 I've been serving the PhotographyREVIEW.com and PCPhotoREVIEW.com community.

When I'm not sitting in front of a computer answering e-mail, checking reviews, adding new cameras to the site, or writing reviews, I'm mountain biking, taking pictures of mountain biking, or testing new digital cameras. You can find most of my photography on our mountain bike site, Mtbr.com, and I'm also a regular contributor to Mountain Biking magazine.

The time I've spent at PhotographyREVIEW.com and PCPhotoREVIEW.com has been wonderful for me as a person and a photographer. I feel lucky to be professionally involved with photography. And I’m blessed and honored to be able to serve and associate with the nicest and most helpful photographers on the Internet.

John Shafer
Photo-John
Photography Channel Manager