Royal Tine Images Inc. and Focus West Gallery feature the award winning nature and wildife photography of Les Voorhis. Les is one of South Dakota's most prolific and widely published outdoor photographersand he has been a professional photographer since 1990. After learning the ins and outs of the stock photography business as a Photo Editor and Image Library Manager for Stock Imagery in Denver, CO, he decided to put his skills to the test with his own work.
Les' published images have appeared in magazines, advertising campaigns, retail packaging, calendars, web sites, books and more. Clients include, Bugle Magazine, Wolf Publishing, Harris Publications, Game and Fish Publications, Primedia Group, Pentax Corp., Smith-Southwestern, South Dakota Magazine, Bowhunter, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and many others.
Les is also a teacher, teaching photography classes and workshops for everyone from the rank beginner to the seasoned professional. In 2007 he was asked to join Tamron Lens Corporation's educational photographers group and teaches workshops for them around the United States. He is on the staff of Naturescapes.com online photo magazine and is also the chair of the NANPA Resource Relations Committee. Profotos.com selected him as one of the top 100 photographers in the country in 2001.
Les owns Focus West Gallery in Spearfish, SD with his wife Julaine as well as a stock photo agency, Royal Tine Images Inc. Les published his first book in 2006 called Spearfish Canyon, A Journey Beyond the Rim and in doing so started his own publishing company. They have several more titles coming out in the next several months as well as a new calendar and greeting card line. Les' work is also available in several other galleries and art shows through out South Dakota and the western US
Why the name "Royal Tine Images"?The Rocky Mountain elk or "wapiti" in
the Shoshone language, is a symbol of the Rocky Mountain West. As one
of our favorite photographic subjects we chose the name "Royal Tine Images"
as the royal tine is the 4th and longest point (known as the Royal Point)
on a bull elk's antler. We hold the elk in high esteem and the western
mountains in September would not be the same without the haunting bugle
of the bull elk. In keeping with this symbol of the west we adopted the
name as our images and photographic style holds the same spirit of freedom
and wildness.
