About New Hights Photography . . .

Fred R. Hight has worked in the fields of photography and video production for over 25 years. New Hights is the result.

His travel stories and photographs have appeared across the country in daily newspapers such as The Dallas Morning News, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Houston Chronicle,  and The Memphis Commercial Appeal.  Fred's photography has appeared in magazines like Texas Highways, Texas Parks & Wildlife and Planning and for publishers Pearson Education, Cambridge University Press, Harcourt School Publishers and Creative Company Publishing.

Fred's art photography has been featured at the Verizon Gallery in Irving, Texas, the Highlands Gallery and the Goodrich Gallery, both in Dallas. His image of Taos Pueblo was a prize winner during the 2001 National Photography Competition at the Texas Artists Museum. In the past 5 years, his work has been jury selected over 20 times for art festivals in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kentucky and Florida, and was named "Best of Show" at the 2005 Edom Festival of the Arts.

Fred draws upon his many years of producing quality media presentations. He was Video Production Supervisor at Zale Corporation for 3½ years and Director of Communications for First United Methodist Church in Dallas for 12 years. Fred has produced, directed, written, shot and edited training and communication programs for a variety of organizations. During the same time, Fred honed his visual skills and applied it to one of his earliest passions – photography. 

He received a B.F.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1982. While in college, he worked with commercial photographers Ted Dayton and Bobby Badger. Before starting New Hights Photography in 2000, he attended the Santa Fe Workshops where he studied with internationally acclaimed photographer Arthur Meyerson.  He also participated in an Arizona Highways workshop led by LeRoy DeJolie.

Fred has traveled and photographed throughout the United States and parts of Canada.