About

Ray Schneider is a freelance photographer whose images span numerous genres including portrait, street, landscape, garden, animals, and events. An avid traveler, his images come from over 30 countries. He has published a book entitled What the Photographer Sees, available on Amazon and recently received a Portfolio Merit Award from Black and White Magazine.  He teaches photography workshops and is also a speaker at camera clubs across the country. 

Prior to becoming a professional photographer, Ray travelled the country as an operations management consultant. He is a recognized expert in process, quality, and operations improvement consulting, with deep experience across a broad range of industries. He has designed and implemented solutions to client problems at over 50 companies and over 200 locations coast-to-coast, in Puerto Rico, Canada and Europe. ​Ray has coached hundreds of teams and team leaders and has created employee empowering leadership paradigms in dozens of organizations. With both Chemical Engineering and Business Management degrees, Ray has been a frequent conference and workshop speaker.

As a cyclist and swimmer, Ray has also competed in championship Ironman distance triathlons, and most loved riding his bike across America. 

For Ray, seeing like a photographer is to perceive well. It’s creating images that are more than pretty pictures -- hopefully -- and that trigger the viewer’s inner voice, that suggest a story, that evolve in the consciousness as they’re viewed, that invite a sense of curiosity, and that cause one to pause and maybe take a closer look.​