About

Jim Davis is the president of Lewis Sommer Photography. I established the company in 2016 when I began working on my fine art photo book The Mansions of Pacific Heights.

My photography business has been a part-time endeavor since my day job as president of U.S. Group Planners, a tour company, has been my primary focus and livelihood. I took most of the images used to showcase and promote my tour company – photographs used in our brochures, websites, social media, marketing materials, and itineraries. This practical experience created an excellent foundation for me to pursue photography initially as a hobby and then as a professional. Now that I am in my mid 60’s and contending with the devastating effects of the Coronavirus on the travel industry I am pivoting to devoting more time to my photography business. 

I have always shared my love of travel with my passion for digital photography. As a  professional photographer my portfolio encompasses landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes as well as poster art and photo montages.

My diverse body of work revolving around nature features flora and fauna with emphasis on flowers, trees, and animals. Not so much people. And ever since I was given a prism as a boy I have been mesmerized by the refraction of light and I still love to photograph light beams. After all, photography derives from Greek roots that mean “writing with light.”

Future projects include the Victorians of San Francisco, the mansions in Silicon Valley, the wineries in Sonoma, and the embassies in Washington, DC.

In addition to taking my photography to the next level I would like to work with lasers (light amplification through the stimulation of emission of radiation), time lapse photography, and Fibonacci fractals.