My name is Rose Witmer

Explorer. Photographer. Videographer. Writer.

I’m a story teller by nature and an explorer by heart. I’ve always had a fascination with the outer world and a passion of sharing my experiences through “ink and light”. Photography creeped in early without me even noticing. Before long, it became less of a hobby and more of an obsession as I strived to learn how to capture not just what I was seeing, but also the emotions and the wonder through a single image.

This is a challenging endeavor and one that I LOVE! I spent the first half of my life living under a very comfortable rock in the farmlands of central Pennsylvania staring wide-eyed at programs on National Geographic, the Travel Channel, and even “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”. Steve Irwin was a childhood hero of mine.

In the end it was the military that didn’t merely coax me out from under my rock, but launched me into the grand world I had always dreamed about. Suddenly it wasn’t gently rolling hills with lazily grazing cows that surrounded me, but toiling ocean waves tumbling into rocky coasts, distant mountain peaks glistening under a sparkling layer of snow and ice, and endless cracks of jagged red desert spanning out to meet an indigo sky. I’ve danced with Okinawan drummers in a festival to call back the ancestors, feasted with Vikings at the base of medieval European castle ruins, and sat with the Sami by a warm fire under the dancing northern lights.

Everywhere I go I fully immerse myself, learning the language, the culture, the land, and the people. Then begins the most challenging yet most rewarding part of the entire experience: sharing these adventures and the world with you through the ink of my pen and the light of my lens.