Jim Treber can be contacted at: (309) 687-5550.

Jim has been taking photos since the early age of 16 when in high school he had more on his mind than studying... lacking only a 1/2 credit to graduate, Jim sought out classes which would give him what he needed to graduate. The only class that would yield the 1/2 credit he needed, was Mechanical Drawing/Photography.. so he took it... he says he never did any mechanical drawing.. but he liked the photography part and the teacher said he had an eye for it. That led Jim to taking the class for the full 6 weeks.. After that, Jim worked on the school year book in 11th and 12th grade; he took all the pictures for the year book that year and has been an avid photographer ever since. That was in 1964.

His father gave him his first good camera in 1988. It was then that Jim knew he wanted to be a full time photographer. At the time he was working for Caterpillar. He had a few opportunities to practice photography part time during the 20 yrs he was there. After leaving Cat in 1990 Jim finally turned his hobby into a business.