BLOOMINGTON — Dave Fulghum isn’t a wedding photographer. He said he’s never been one or chosen to be one. Fulghum, 64, primarily does business-to-business photography, like headshots and corporate architecture, as well as portraits.
But the Bloomington photographer and former biologist/chemist did say a friend he’s known since high school asked him to shoot his spring wedding in Williams, Arizona. “Since I’m gonna be taking all of my gear to shoot the wedding..
. I might as well just turn it into a big ole road trip,” Fulghum said. Bloomington's Dave Fulghum talks about his photography trip to the Western United States in his studio at 415 N.
Main St. in downtown Bloomington. The wedding was May 18, and Fulghum's westward road journey was routed through Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico.
After the wedding in Arizona, Fulghum visited his daughter for 10 days in the Ogden, Utah, area. “It’s 4,600 miles, round trip. It took me 21 days and I stopped at everything worth shooting for that whole 21 days,” he said.
Mount Rushmore is shown at sunrise this spring in this provided photo taken by Bloomington photographer David Fulghum. Taking it easy By his return to Bloomington, Fulghum said he had captured a lot of landscapes, a genre of photography to which he said he brings a lot of architectural photography experience. That’s also what he said sets him apart as a photographer.
“I tend to not necessarily force perspective, but I use it to my advantage,�.
