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About Fullerton Photography

A little more than a bio.

Knowing who you are working with can sometimes be more important than the job. So here is the part of the site where I step out from behind the camera.

The person behind the camera
Douglas Fullerton, owner of Fullerton Photography.

Hello and welcome to Fullerton Photography LLC! If you're looking to learn more about your photographer, you've come to the right page.

Aside from growing up in an optimistic household and encouraged by a wonderful mother and father, I've made strides to overcome my nearsighted vision my entire life.

You may be asking how can someone who is almost blind possibly do photography? Look at almost any art and you will find that oftentimes in what seems to be inhospitable circumstances, people will flourish even though the world looks at that and says “You can't see / hear / walk, etc.” and so hastily determines that a person is limited due to some physical condition.

Instead of worrying about the negative effects of vision, I've always felt that I've been a person with a kind heart, noble ambitions, and a positive, long-term oriented perspective on life.

With vision concerns aside, I enjoy photography because of the expression it gives and the beauty of the art rather than someone just picking up a camera and trying to make a buck. It was never my intention, when I picked up my first digital point-and-shoot Canon S10 roughly twenty years ago, to be doing wedding or event photography as a source of income.

Timeline and history

Southfield roots. Architecture brain. Technology hobbies.

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University of Detroit Mercy campus architecture

Southfield → Milford

I was born in Southfield in 1980 and moved to the Milford / Novi area at age six. I graduated from Milford High School and later studied architecture, history, and philosophy at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Early photography equipment marking the start of Fullerton Photography as a business

Photography grows into a business

What began with a point-and-shoot camera gradually became weddings, events, freelance commercial work, media coverage and, eventually, Fullerton Photography LLC in 2009.

Editing workstation for Wedding photography by Fullerton Photography

Still a technology person

If I am not behind the camera, I am usually reading technology articles, editing, building computers, modeling in Blender, working on websites, or spending some time in an MMORPG.

Google Maps screenshot showing business photo views and location

Service Focused

I also, on occasion, share my reviews of places and experiences to Google Maps.

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Beyond the camera

Architecture, travel, technology—and the things that keep life interesting.

Nighttime Detroit architecture and light trails photographed by Doug Fullerton

Architecture still matters

I entered college with architecture in mind, and that interest never really left even when I stepped away from the program. Space, structure, proportion and light all find their way back into the way I frame photographs.

Burj Khalifa photographed during Doug's UAE trip

Travel & curiosity

A 2015 trip to Abu Dhabi and Dubai gave me the chance to experience architecture and culture on a very different scale—and, naturally, to photograph it.

Greyhound photographed by Fullerton Photography

Animals count too

My work has also included Greyhound photography, including images featured by the Greyhound Adoption League of Texas and in its annual calendar.

Where the editing happens

Also A Computer Creative

I also build computers as a hobby. If I am not behind the camera, I am usually reading technology articles, editing, working on websites, modeling in Blender, or spending time in an MMORPG. These are but two versions of my editing workstation - one on an SR-2 board from 2008, and my current self-built, fully water-cooled editing system from 2024 onward (Z890 i9-285U | 192GB DDR5-6000 | RTX 5090FE | 38 TB Storage | 1600w PSU.

Doug's earlier custom-built SR-2 editing workstation, from 2008Douglas Fullerton's current self-built water-cooled editing workstation, used from 2024 onward.
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