About Chris Wessling

I grew up in Santa Monica, California. Before even owning a camera, I was completely enamored with photography. At the age of 9, I received my first real camera. Prior to that, I was the trustee of our family's Polaroid Land camera. As a young photog’, I always thought "Land" meant it was for shooting on land; seemed intuitive to me back then. You see, I really wanted that Hasselblad Moon camera with those "lens paddles", for adjusting the focus, aperture and shuttler speed rings while wearing pressure suit gloves on the surface of the Moon. Backing up, the Polaroid process was invented by Edwin “Land”. Now you know.

As a Las Vegas based photographer, in addition to traveling abroad for work, I specialize in architectural, interior design and food & cocktail photography. Las Vegas, with its ever-expanding cityscape and growing collection of world-renewed chefs keeps me busy. There truly is no better city to live in for this type of work.

Capturing unique in-camera images on traditional photochemical celluloid film is never easy. Although I enjoy the ease and speed of today’s digital imaging systems and the ability to post edit on-the-fly, there’s nothing more satisfying to a classically trained photographer than capturing that perfect image on film, sans the digital filters and AI technologies. It's all about being in the right place, at the right time, with quintessential lighting and moving quickly to get the shot before you lose that crowning moment. More about classic film photography in my Archived Articles.