Known mostly for his polished corporate studio work, this Seattle pro is finding wealth and happiness by focusing on the small, rough-edged details.

Doug Landreth has been a studio pro for 25 years, often specializing in large production projects in his big, flashy Seattle studio. Recently, however, he's gone small scale, photographing bugs and flowers and turning them into highly textured fine-art prints. Better still, he's making some money with this new work while striving to please only one person: himself.

If that sideline sounds like a prescription for happiness and satisfaction for a harried photo pro with high overhead, well, Landreth couldn't agree more.

Inspired by the textures he had seen and photographed during a trip to Mexico four years ago, he began compositing...

The fine-art photography of Doug Landreth was included at Art Expo 2006, held in New York City in March. Landreth's newest portfolio is "Off I-5," for which he traveled up and down Interstate 5 photographing the landscapes along the exits. His images have appeared in publications such as Graphis Photo Annual and Applied Arts.

Seattle photographer Doug Landreth was one of six winners in the Photo District News PIX Digital Imaging Contest's Personal category for his series of three floral portraits. A few months previously, Landreth's work placed sixth in the Adobe Digital Imaging Competition, exploring the theme Presentation of Entertainment.