| “One of the most rewarding moments in my life is when I deliver one of the large canvas images I’ve created. I watch the pride... the emotion...the pleasure...” confides REG when asked why he loves his craft so much.
When he ‘goes to work,’ REG combines his photography and fine art skills with his intuitive nature to produce outstanding results. And people love it! Even those who “hate having their picture taken” relax and enjoy the experience under his sensitive direction. The results are heirlooms as individual as the families represented – no two are ever the same.
Companies, corporations and business organizations have also realized the value of REG’s creations. He can create visual images that project not only the nature of the business, but what it stands for and where its are going.
REG is available for consultation (by appointment) for all your inquiries.
He can be reached by calling (604) 465-0320 or email him at address at page bottom.
Accomplishments
REG has worked and studied with some of North America’s greatest Masters and has received numerous awards for his portrait, aerial and scenic photography. The Eastman Kodak Company has presented him with five prestigious Kodak Gallery Awards for excellence in professional photography. His work is frequently chosen for display at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center and many pieces remain part of the Professional Photographers of America traveling loan collection. As well as decorating homes and offices, REG’s images have been published in coffee table books, magazines, annual reports and various commercial applications. In 1999 he was runner-up for Photographer of the Year.
Awards
REG MESS has won over 25 major awards in the past 10 years, testament to the fact that his work is exceptional. Some of the categories he has won or placed are:
- Photographer of the Year
- Best Portrait
- Best Aerial
- Best Pictorial
- Best Group Portrait
- Best Portrait of a Man
- Best Editorial
- Best Illustrative
Visit the  section to view masterpieces by REG MESS.
History
(excerpted from a story published on Wednesday, May 7, 1997 in the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows News - written by Karin Mark.)
Driven by an interest in photography at an early age, the road from Saskatoon (where he grew up) to Pitt Meadows ( where he now makes his home) was filled with study, opportunity and adventure. In the mid-80s, Reg hooked up with a photographer who advised him to attend the school of life rather than a technological institute.
That photographer, Gene Hattori, took Reg under his wing, and eventually, on a photographic expedition to Thailand. That’s where Reg met Ken Whitmire, a Washington photographer whose style influences Reg to this day.
"He taught me how to see, he taught me how to look at things. He taught me to tell stories," said Reg.
After the Thailand trip ended, Reg followed Whitmire to his Yakima home and worked with him for a month. Then he went home to Saskatoon, sold everything and set out on the road.
He lived like a nomad for the next year or so, traveling around the United States and the world, studying and working with professional photographers while building up a reputation of his own.
Reg returned to Canada in 1991 and finally realized his dream of running his own photography business in late 1995, when he moved to Pitt Meadows. Now, he's working to market the skills he's honed over the years under the name of Master's Touch.
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