Mark Rightmire

Mark Rightmire had his first photograph published in his hometown newspaper in Athens, Ohio, at the age of 12. A graduate of the Visual Communication program at Ohio University, he has been a staff photographer at The Orange County Register for over three decades, documenting the people, places, and landscapes of Orange County. Assignments have also taken him beyond the boarders of O.C. From Auckland, New Zealand to Dublin, Ireland; Disneyland to the Atlantic City Boardwalk; from the French Quarter of New Orleans to Pike Place Market in Seattle; the Stanley Cup Finals in Ottawa and NYC, to the America’s Cup in San Francisco and San Diego. In 2014 he traveled to Russia to cover the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. A love for the outdoors often reflects in his photography.