Underwater Reflections: Investment Manager's Grinning Shark, Charitable Endeavors Featured on Seattle KING 5 TV's Evening Magazine
Bellevue, WA, August 22, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Bruce Yates is an investment manager by day, but it is his hobby - underwater photography, under the moniker Underwater Reflections - that has been receiving attention lately. On August 18, 2010, he and his photography were featured on Evening Magazine, produced by King 5 TV, Seattle's NBC Affiliate.
Yates is president of Appropriate Balance Financial Services, Inc. (abfsnw.com), a respected Bellevue wealth management and investment firm he founded 26 years ago. But he is also an experienced SCUBA diver who has traveled the globe photographing the undersea world. His favorite destinations include such exotic spots as Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Red Sea and the Maldives (in the Indian Ocean).
The Evening Magazine segment (which can be seen at http://www.king5.com/on-tv/evening-magazine/Going-face-to-face-with-sharks-on-purpose-101033094.html) includes underwater footage of Yates taking photos on a recent Cayman Islands trip, as well as an assortment of his photographs from around the world. The interview, by Evening Magazine's Michael King, was taped at the Clyde Hill Tully's, located at 8805 Points Dr. NE in Bellevue, WA, where a special exhibit of Yates' photographs is currently on display. These special frameless prints are sealed and mounted in plexiglass, and were produced by Prestige Graphics in Sterling, VA, the printer responsible for all Nature's Best Photography exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
In fact, the exhibit at Tully's includes a 5-foot high print of his "Cheshire Cat Grin" shark photo, an exact replica of a print used last year in an exhibit at the Smithsonian. The grinning shark photo received that honor after winning the "Oceans" division of the prestigious Windland Smith Rice Awards, sponsored by Nature's Best Photography. Winners are chosen from more than 20,000 entries. Since winning one of its major divisions, Yates' grinning shark has appeared in publications around the world.
The Evening Magazine interview also addresses Yates' charitable activities. He does not try to profit personally from his photography, but uses his hobby to raise money for charitable causes, donating monetary contest awards, publication royalties and profits from sale of prints.
Currently, all of Yates' profits are donated to the International Children’s Surgical Foundation (www.ICSFoundation.org), which corrects facial deformities in children in lesser-developed countries. Thus far, Yates' photography has generated over $20,000 for ICSF. As he explains, "It is wonderful to see people enjoy my photographs and buy them as art, but it is even more gratifying to know that a hobby I enjoy so much is helping to change the lives of children in such challenging situations."
Prior to ICSF, Yates donated profits to the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation (www.PKDCure.org), an organization funding research to find a cure for the most common genetic disease in America. He and his company funded a 2007 calendar of his photographs that raised more than $12,000 for that organization.
Yates has taken hundreds of stunning nature photographs. Most are images of life in the underwater realm, but he also has notable photos of Alaskan brown bears, Arctic polar bears and other animals. They, as well as his award-winning "Cheshire Cat Grin," can be seen - and prints purchased - at www.UnderwaterReflections.com.
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Yates is president of Appropriate Balance Financial Services, Inc. (abfsnw.com), a respected Bellevue wealth management and investment firm he founded 26 years ago. But he is also an experienced SCUBA diver who has traveled the globe photographing the undersea world. His favorite destinations include such exotic spots as Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Red Sea and the Maldives (in the Indian Ocean).
The Evening Magazine segment (which can be seen at http://www.king5.com/on-tv/evening-magazine/Going-face-to-face-with-sharks-on-purpose-101033094.html) includes underwater footage of Yates taking photos on a recent Cayman Islands trip, as well as an assortment of his photographs from around the world. The interview, by Evening Magazine's Michael King, was taped at the Clyde Hill Tully's, located at 8805 Points Dr. NE in Bellevue, WA, where a special exhibit of Yates' photographs is currently on display. These special frameless prints are sealed and mounted in plexiglass, and were produced by Prestige Graphics in Sterling, VA, the printer responsible for all Nature's Best Photography exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
In fact, the exhibit at Tully's includes a 5-foot high print of his "Cheshire Cat Grin" shark photo, an exact replica of a print used last year in an exhibit at the Smithsonian. The grinning shark photo received that honor after winning the "Oceans" division of the prestigious Windland Smith Rice Awards, sponsored by Nature's Best Photography. Winners are chosen from more than 20,000 entries. Since winning one of its major divisions, Yates' grinning shark has appeared in publications around the world.
The Evening Magazine interview also addresses Yates' charitable activities. He does not try to profit personally from his photography, but uses his hobby to raise money for charitable causes, donating monetary contest awards, publication royalties and profits from sale of prints.
Currently, all of Yates' profits are donated to the International Children’s Surgical Foundation (www.ICSFoundation.org), which corrects facial deformities in children in lesser-developed countries. Thus far, Yates' photography has generated over $20,000 for ICSF. As he explains, "It is wonderful to see people enjoy my photographs and buy them as art, but it is even more gratifying to know that a hobby I enjoy so much is helping to change the lives of children in such challenging situations."
Prior to ICSF, Yates donated profits to the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation (www.PKDCure.org), an organization funding research to find a cure for the most common genetic disease in America. He and his company funded a 2007 calendar of his photographs that raised more than $12,000 for that organization.
Yates has taken hundreds of stunning nature photographs. Most are images of life in the underwater realm, but he also has notable photos of Alaskan brown bears, Arctic polar bears and other animals. They, as well as his award-winning "Cheshire Cat Grin," can be seen - and prints purchased - at www.UnderwaterReflections.com.
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