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Meet the Staff

  Meet the Staff of Star Photo Digital Arts

More info on our incredible staff –

Kathy Wehrley has been a student of photography most of her life, receiving her first camera at age 12. In the early 1980’s she worked for Odell’s (camera store and lab), while teaching basic photography classes and being heavily involved with the Killbuck Photo Guild of Madison County.  Her favorite subjects have long been architecture, shape, color and form and only started photographing babies and families when she joined the Star Photo Digital Arts Staff in the fall of 2009. While there’s plenty of variety of subjects working in the studio, from families to headshots to fine art captures, her favorite human subjects are the babies.  “It can be a lot of work, but capturing those fleeting moments in the first year, and making the mamas happy brings me a lot of satisfaction”, she says. In her time off, she enjoys riding her bike, going to the gym, reading and enjoying time with family and friends.

 

 

 

Aaron Martin came to us in 2015, starting out as a part timer, but quickly grew into a full time gig. He graduated from Frankton High school, and then earned a degree from Ball State University majoring in Advertising, with a minor in Marketing.  He has spent many hours updating and polishing our website (including helping with these blog posts). He’s recently taken a new role as Creative Director, offering Business to Business marketing solutions.  Aaron’s favorite part of the job is, in his words, “Making cool stuff.”  In his off hours, Aaron plays a lot of golf and spends time with family and friends.

 

 

 

David Olvey has been with the Rossen family, Star China , and Star Photo for as long as anyone can remember. He’s a handyman, in charge of UPS shipments, runs the C-41 processor, and does most our canvas work, and photo mount work.  He knows where everything is in the building and you can count on him to find it for you, generally in five minutes or less.   He is a very important member of our team.

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Inside Star Photo Digital Arts

Meet the Owner of Star Photo Digital Arts in Anderson Indiana

Welcome to our first blog post!  We want to use this space for helpful hints, inside information and give our customers a chance to know us a little better. To that end, let me introduce to you our owner and chief operating officer and his sidekick…

Choco, our Public Relations Rep, is an important staffer that takes his job and the need for treats seriously. He’s a mixed breed rescue; we don’t know exactly what the mix is made of, but we all think he’s perfect the way he is. He’s a greeter, a charmer and a trickster all rolled into one. He has a whole host of tricks he will do for treats.  We’ve got a mug on the counter full of treats – when you come in just ask him to sit or shake before rewarding him. He’ll be your bud forever if you do…

Choco’s human and owner of Star Photo Digital Arts, Chuck Rossen, is the youngest child, and only son of Morris and Celia, the founders of Star China. Chuck grew up playing, and then working in the store, helping his father grow the business. After Chuck graduated from college and returned to the family business in the 1970s, he was looking for something to do in the business that he could make his own. It was then that he got an unsolicited offer from the KIS photo company, selling film processing units to small businesses. The line of business was added, and quickly took off.

chuck and choco 2016

Star China entered the digital age with abandon on both sides of the business. The China side quickly set up an online store, selling and shipping to customers all over the world. The Photo business also thrived with the new trend of digital photography. They quickly gained clients who were looking for someone who could keep up with technology, and Star Photo was more than able to provide.

Star China closed the housewares portion of the business in 2004. The photo portion of the business has expanded and today we are still keeping up with the ever changing world of digital photography. In addition to processing color print film (C-41 process), Chuck has added putting images on canvas, paper, metal and coffee mugs (among other things). We can do banners, posters and life-sized cutouts.  He is working with our staff offering Business to Business marketing solutions. We recently updated our website and we still offer online ordering at mystarphoto.com.  We also have a photo studio that specializes in baby and family portraits, business head shots and fine art reproduction.

Stay tuned to this blog for more info on the rest of our Star Photo Digital Arts Staff!

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