Former Newsman "Pictures" Beauty Around the World

What does a long-time television newsman do after the camera goes off for the last time? After 30 years covering floods and fires, Presidents and plain folks, flying with the Blue Angels

 

          What does a long-time television newsman do after the camera goes off for the last time?  After 30 years covering floods and fires, Presidents and plain folks, flying with the Blue Angels and riding in a cattle drive, hosting a town hall meeting with President Bill Clinton and reporting from Russia in the first months after the Soviet Union collapsed?

 

          Award-winning anchor Gus Koernig moved behind the camera and out into some of the most beautiful places on Earth. 

 

          The veteran journalist, who now lives in Arizona, says, "I've finally found what I want to do when I grow up.  I take pictures of places that take my breath, and I share them with people."  Koernig has launched All Outdoors Photographic Images (http://www.alloutdoorsphotography.com/).   His online galleries are filled with photos from across the U.S. and Australia, including many from the Southwest, with more being added all the time.

 

          "I'd taken pictures on and off for years, but I started getting serious about outdoor photography in the year before I left TV news."  That was in the Fall of 2005, just before he and his wife Vickie moved from Montana to Arizona.

 

          "I know that what I shared with people as a reporter was important, but a lot of it didn't put a smile on anyone's face," Koernig says.  "Everything I share now really lights people up, and that excites me in a way that good ratings (which are a good thing) just can't.  Taking pictures and working with them never feels like work."

 

          Koernig is also the co-author of three books; "Angel With Crooked Feet" with Anthony Sarjant, a family counselor in Arizona; "A Home for Every Family; Eradicating Severe Poverty in the 21^st Century" with Phoenix real estate developer David Johns; and "Vested Interest" with Boston sales consultant Dave Rolfe.

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