About Ronnie Boone

Influenced by his mother, an artist locally known for her work with oil paints and watercolors, Ronnie was always a creative mind. In high school, he could re-create logos of the popular rock bands of the day, drawing them on fellow students’ notebooks, book covers or wherever they wanted.  This would later lead to creating the logos for some local bands and the cover for an album which unfortunately went unreleased due to conflicts within the band.

In the military, he would draw cartoons and fax them to fellow soldiers in the field to keep them entertained. It was while in the military that he began taking photos as a hobby. Stationed in Germany, Ronnie was able to travel to and take photographs of places like Switzerland, Paris and Holland.

After leaving the military, Ronnie returned to his hometown of Washington, DC for a few years before moving to North Carolina’s Crystal Coast where the scenery offered the chance for many great photos, including covering the annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament as the official web photographer. The majority of the photos in the “Rock'n Shots” section of their website were shot by him. His photo of the tournament record 831 pound Blue Marlin was featured in Marlin Magazine.

Ronnie’s love of sports, particularly the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, landed him the opportunity to relocate to the Tampa Bay area to take photos for a magazine covering Florida’s professional sports teams. Ronnie has covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Lightning, Rays and Storm, the University of South Florida (USF) Bulls, Miami Dolphins, the Outback Bowl, the St. Petersburg Bowl, the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, as well as professional tennis, golf, basketball, mixed martial arts, boxing, fashion shows, charity events and much more. Ronnie has worked with professional athletes such as Michael Pittman, Chris Hovan, Greg Spires and Brad Penny, as well as professional musicians, covering "CharliePalooza" each year since 2007.  CharliePalooza is a charity event/concert held by music legend Charlie Daniels.

Ronnie currently uses an 8.2 megapixel Canon EOS 20D as his primary camera, a 6.3 megapixel Canon EOS 10D as his backup, and has lenses ranging from 18mm to 400mm. In web design and graphic arts, Ronnie is experienced with a large amount of graphics software, programming languages, database applications and much more.