About New Hights Photography
Fred R. Hight has worked in the fields of photography and video production for over 25 years. 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. His latest area of work is in real estate, where his images have become a standard of quality for North Texas realtors.
Fred's art photography has been featured at the Verizon Gallery in Irving, Texas, the Highlands Gallery and the Goodrich Gallery, both in Dallas. In the past 8 years, his work has been jury selected for art festivals in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kentucky and Florida. He was named "2009 Best Photography of Show" at Artfest in Dallas and was "Best of Show" at the 2005 Edom Festival of the Arts. He received a 2010 Robertson Award for Communications, given by the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, for a promotional Christmas postcard.
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.