About Me

Photography has been my passion since I can remember and had guided me through various experiences of my life. It has always been a medium to capture my vision, my thoughts, my feelings, my memories, and my life. In this website I am sharing with you my work of many years with the intent that we could communicate without words.

I love to shoot and like the edit almost as much. I hope you enjoy my stuff and please don’t hesitate to send me a little note, even if it’s just to say Hi… (thomas@tgarza.com)

So up until now I have always enjoyed taking pictures, but I have never really had a friend that enjoyed taking pictures as much as I do. Everyone just thought it was great that I had my camera and was taking there picture. Recently, I got introduced to a girl that loved photography and was trying to start her own business as a photographer. I was excited to meet someone that loved photography more than me. It was like meeting someone famous for the first time, I had a ton of questions for her which let to more question and more questions. I am not going to say this person willing took me under her wing to help me learn more about photography, I more less wedged myself under her wing hoping she would let me learn from her. Surprising she let me stay and befriended me. She became my new “roll model” so to speak, but I never told her that. I quickly learned from her that there was way more to taking a picture than I could have ever imagined. Who would have known that learning photography was going to be a life long process. When I got to hang out with my new “roll model,” I felt like a little kid playing in a major league baseball game. I was amazed at the talent of my new friend, she would chase a perfect picture in a blink of an eye and capture it before I even knew what she was doing. She could see angles and views that I had no idea existed. After watching her for awhile I got a little discouraged, I thought I could never be this good, I am not creative, I am an engineer. I chase numbers, computer logic, black and white stuff. I don’t understand imagination, creativity and color shades and what is dept of field. In the blink of an eye this beautiful young women made me realize there is a whole other world out there that I knew nothing about, but I wanted to learn.

Categorical Breakdown of Me:

The Basics

  • Name: Thomas Garza
  • Gender: Dude
  • Primary Language: English
  • Place of Residence: Dallas, Texas
  • Sign, although I’m not into this form of mysticism: Leo
  • High School: Lufkin High School
  • University: Texas State

My Intertubes Scent Trails:

Hobbies

  • Photography
  • Cycling (road bike)
  • Computer & video games
  • New Technology
  • Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce
  • Politics

Music

  • Country
  • Pop
  • George Strait
  • Dave Matthews Band
  • Pat Green
  • Black Eyed Peas
  • Listen to almost all genres though, except for Eskimo music, which I despise.

TV

  • NCIS
  • CSI (all of them)
  • 24
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  • Family Guy

Food

  • Italian
  • Mexican
  • Sushi

Languages

  • Englsih (barely)
  • Spanish (enough to order Mexican food)

Quotes I like:

  • Winston Churchill:  ”Success is the ability to move from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm.”
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