Welcome to the website of Thomas Kelsey Photography. Here you will be able to view a variety of subjects including a gallery, which shows off his work as a photojournalist at eight newspapers since 1972. There are a total of 14 separate viewing areas. For automobile lovers, there is a section for Street Rods and the Great American Race, an antique cross-country car rally which he has photographed coast-to-coast 14 times. He has documented, photographed, and driven over 60,000 miles on the back roads of America with the antique cars and trucks.

Kelsey, a former staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado, has included many photographs including both color and black & white images from his many adventures. Kelsey has had assignments from Alaska to Baja, Mexico, New Zealand and to all 50 states. There are images of ghost towns taken in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range of California and snowbound Bison in the Rocky Mountain range in Colorado. Other wildlife includes Bald Eagles in Alaska, wild Moose in Yellowstone National Park and leaping Sailfish off of Key West, Florida. Weddings, Family portraits and corporate accounts are also featured. Kelsey will photograph traditional weddings or location portraits. The results of some of these adventurers are shown here. E-mail tk55chev@yahoo.com for prices. Some of these images are for sale as limited edition prints, boxed notecards, and in some cases, limited edition posters and postcards. Icons will direct you to various areas of interest. If you have any questions or comments, please leave a message.

Biography
Thomas Kelsey started his career as staff photographer for The Channels at Santa Barbara City College in 1972. He interned at Newsday in New York in 1975 and graduated from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California in 1977. He went on to work at four other newspapers before being hired at the Los Angeles Times on Christmas Eve in 1979. Kelsey stayed at the Times for 12 years before moving to Colorado as staff photographer for the Rocky Mountain News in 1991. He returned to California in 1995 and was a staff photographer at the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California until 2003. Through 2007, he was an associate editor and chief photographer at The Outdoor Channel. He can be reached at tk55chev@yahoo.com via email.

He has won numerous awards, both regional and national from the National Press Photographers Association, California Press Photographers Association, Greater Los Angeles Press Photographers, Associated Press, Colorado Press Association and the Pictures of the

Year sponsored by the University of Missouri and the NPPA. He studied under the legendary Ansel Adams during the summer of 1981 and was presented an editorial award from the Los Angeles Times for best spot news photograph in 1982.

In 1983, Kelsey was a member of the reporter/photographer team that won the Pulitzer prize for coverage of the Latino Community of Southern California and a year later was chosen as one of 32 members of the National Photo Pool which covered the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Some of his assignments have included the 1987 and 1993 Papal visits to Los Angeles, San Francisco & Denver; the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake; four baseball World Series; Super Bowl XXI; and the Indianapolis 500 twice. He was also the primary photographer for the Colorado Rockies Baseball team for the Rocky Mountain News for the teams first three years of existence.

Kelsey was also an instructor at the University of Southern California & UCLA, teaching Photojournalism and has had his work appear in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Sunset, American Photo, Teen, Hot Rod ,Sports Illustrated, Life & numerous other publications.

Along with numerous gallery showings, Kelsey was honored as having his body of work from the "Great American Race" represented in "Rear View Mirror" at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, California in 2000. The show, sponsored by AAA of Southern California, also included work by Ansel Adams and others.