About The Photographer
Born in San Francisco in the sixties and influenced from Sonoma County from the very first days, Robert Janover has achieved varying degrees of success in the difficult pursuit of a free-lancing photographer. Robert is the publisher, art director, and editor of his own True Images Photography business, a company producing beautiful retail products locally, regionally and nationally, out of Sonoma County for the last fifteen years.
Beginning with a small line of notecards in 1986, Robert has persisted in producing high quality products through the years that include a postcard book of Sonoma County with an accompanying postcard line, a note card line, a Northern California Coastline poster and to date 43 uniquely formatted calendars have been produced, including 13 Sonoma County photo and event calendars, and a series with Landmark Calendars. Calendars for Hewlett Packard and Redwood Credit Union have been produced as well as several calendars for KXFX, The Fox radio station here in Sonoma County. Hundreds and hundreds of North Bay business have used Robert Janovers products and services.
National and international clients have included: Chevron Products USA, AMEX, Windham Hill Records, Landmark Calendars, Agilent Technologies, Enigma-Capitol Records, Pacific Bell, Audi.
In the summer of '99 Robert released a comprehensive photo book showcasing Sonoma County. Within the book are 350+ photographs of Sonoma County landscapes, architecture and historical buildings.
A new line of blank scenic notecards was produced in the summer of 2003 and featured 16 images in the 5" x 7" format, and expanded upon in the Spring of '06 for a total of 43 beautiful Sonoma County cards.
The Sonoma County Picture Book, Sonoma County Calendar, mini-picture book and cards are available at retailers throughout the county or directly at the address or phone # below, or via e-mail at janover@sonic.net.
Robert continues to design and produce color printed literature
for the businesses of the North Bay. Stock photos are available as are arranged photo
assignments.
Here's a rough version of a commercial for the 2004 calendar and video of the creation of the cover image. There are many quicktime slideshows and video clips loaded up on the "DVD" page.
