About Jim Beresford Photography

I was born and reared in Lake Charles, La. The Louisiana license plate had “The Sportsman’s Paradise” on it. That was certainly true for me as I was constantly in the woods or marshes hunting and fishing with my Dad and my friends. At the age of eighteen I decided to see the world and joined the Marine Corps where I spent my first year of service in California learning to surf and my next two and one half years in Vietnam learning to duck. While in Vietnam I was the first person to ever be promoted to Sergeant with only two years of service time in Marine Corps history. I lived at China Beach and was in charge of communications for the Marine Corps in Vietnam.

When my vacation on China Beach ended I moved to Santa Barbara, California to attend Brooks Institute of Photography. After three years of training at Brooks I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and accepted a job offer in Dallas, TX. to work as a photographer. After working for two years in Dallas I opened a company called The Great Shooting Gallery, Inc. where I employed seven photographers and we specialized in advertising photograph. Four years later I started another company called The James Gang, Inc. This company worked directly with advertising agencies producing from start to finish TV commercials for major corporations. I was a director/cameraman in my company and had two to three other directors on staff to take care of the volume of work we had managed to secure. I was fortunate to work with many of the fortune five hundred companies and most of the major advertising agencies in North America. The James Gang, Inc. was closed in 2001 and James Gang Pictures, Inc. was opened. Keeping my production building in Dallas I opened another office in Hollywood with the purpose of buying a script and producing a family oriented movie. I was fortunate to find a good script and produced a movie named “School of Life” budgeted at $8,000,000.00. This movie was made for families and is about school teachers. The two stars of the movie are Ryan Reynolds and David Paymer. This movie was sold to ABC Family Channel and to the major movie rental companies.

Recently I have been hunting and fishing as much as possible. My new company is called Jim Beresford Outdoors, Inc. Besides outdoor product development I also work as a booking agent for outfitters. I still enjoy photography and have a website that features some of my outdoor photos. While hunting ducks and geese in Saskatchewan with one of my clients I realized there was a need for a better ground blind that kept hunters faces hidden, was more comfortable, and lower profile. This new blind is called GooseTrap and has had great reviews from other outfitters and hunters. After more development I have made the back support adjustable and GooseTrap can now be marketed as a turkey hunting chair that is very comfortable and light weight. GooseTrap has been sent to a manufacturer in China and is ready to be manufactured. My new low profile dog blind, and portable stand-up blind are in the final stages of development.

I have lived in Argyle, Texas for twenty five years on a thirty acre horse ranch with my wife Martha and my daughter Jamesy. We have two other daughters Amy and Jenny who live in San Francisco.