Jay Goldsmith followed ten years as a high school English teacher with thirty-five years as the owner of a commercial photography business, specializing in portraiture of individuals, children, and families and working exclusively in natural light from May through November of each year. The winter and early spring months he devoted to a personal fine art photography. Twice named New Hampshire Photographer of the Year. he taught in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, and London, England. Now semi-retired, he spends time exploring alternative processes such as platinum/palladium, cyanotype, and gum bichromate