Steve King Photography

09/23/2026

Because you deserve more than bare walls, here’s 30 seconds of Los Angeles, compressed into one frame.

I stood above the 110 at blue hour waiting for this exact balance — downtown lit up, sky still deep blue, traffic painting red and white ribbons through the frame. One of my favorite LA nights I've ever shot.

It's now available as a frameless acrylic print — the depth on acrylic makes those light trails look like they're still moving.

Link in bio to shop. Quick question: living room or office — where would you hang this? 👇

📍 Downtown Los Angeles

09/21/2026

Check out my latest YouTube video - unboxing and reviewing my first Print on Demand acrylic print, now available on Etsy!

I turned one of my favorite Chicago skyline photographs into a fram...

09/13/2026

I’ve spent the last five years seeking out and photographing some of the most beautiful places in the United States and beyond. Now, I’m excited to make some of my favorite images available as high-quality digital downloads through my new Etsy shop — designed to be printed, framed, and displayed in your home or office.

Available now:
Chicago • Los Angeles • American Southwest

Coming soon:
Iceland • Mountain West • Caribbean • Texas

To celebrate the launch, the entire collection is 50% off for a limited time.

If you’ve ever wanted one of my photographs on your wall, this is the easiest way to make it your own: download the image, print it in the size and style that fits your space, frame it, and enjoy it at home.

Shop the collection: SteveKingPhotography on Etsy (Link in Comments)

09/01/2026

This may be the best picture I’ve made of a beach sunrise - and the best part is it was made in Texas.

I had to say “Adios” to Texas Sunday after spending almost all of August back home with friends, family, and old neighbors after saying goodbye to my Mom for the last time.

So, until meet again, Adios.

Description: Galveston’s Pleasure Pier is bathed in golden sunlight as a seagull takes flight in the foreground.

Galveston Island
The Wilder Blue

08/28/2026

One of the best ways to take in a big Texas sunset is at Eleanor Tensely park in the shadows of the Energy Capital of the World.

Also, how am I just discovering The Wilder Blue?! I heard Palomino Blue for the first time last weekend in Texas and have been listening to their music almost nonstop since.

08/26/2026

I’ve been spending a lot of time back home in Texas lately.

I came home to be at my mom’s bedside as she passed from this Earth, to be with friends and family as we processed the grief, and wound up reconnecting with a life I left behind 20 years ago.

Since then, life has taken me from the Marines to Chicago (with stops in California, Washington State, and St. Louis), through two college degrees and a career in Strategy Consulting, and eventually to becoming a husband and father of two. I always imagined I’d return to Texas someday, but momentum is a hell of a thing. Life has a way of carrying you forward without necessarily bringing you back to where you started.

Photography has become one of the ways I connect with places that mean something to me. So on my latest trip home, I brought my camera and revisited a few places that helped shape who I am.

1. Houston — Eleanor Tinsley Park

I used to run here and at Memorial Park while attending the University of Houston and later while training for Marine Corps Officer Candidate School. The skyline has changed. So have I. But the view still feels like home.

2. Galveston — Pleasure Pier

Growing up near Houston meant Galveston was always close by. We came here as kids to play in the surf, dodge jellyfish and seaweed, hunt for seashells, and search for the ultimate treasure: an unbroken sand dollar.

3. Bermuda Beach — Galveston

For a year when I was six or seven, my family lived in a beach house here. More than 30 years and countless storms later, I drove back and was amazed to find the house still standing.

I walked down to my old beach and saw this boy casting his line into the Gulf. He wasn’t much older than I was when I lived there, fishing the same water where I had done the same thing decades earlier.

For a moment, 30+ years didn’t seem like such a long time.

The house is still there. The Gulf is still rolling onto the same beach. And kids are still standing at the water’s edge, casting their lines into it.

That was good to see.

Sometimes going home reminds you how much has changed.

And sometimes, if you’re lucky, it reminds you how much hasn’t.

05/05/2026

While everyone else is still asleep, we’re up early with Gros Pitón capturing a silky smooth long exposure of this ancient volcanic plug at dawn.

Without a tripod, I managed to balance my camera on the pier to capture this shot using a 10-stop ND filter and a 20-second exposure. Gotta get creative sometimes!

05/04/2026

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or in my case, find a different composition that works. The sunset on our “Sunset Cruise” was completely obscured by this lone rainstorm on the horizon. No purple sky and and no dramatic view of the Pitons lit in golden light. But I did manage to spot this interesting boat at anchor and as we sailed by, noticed it would frame up very well in front of the very storm blocking the sunset. A few snaps later and I think I captured one of the more interesting shots of the trip.

What do you think?

05/03/2026

Watching the sun set over St. Lucia from the Jade Mountain Club was an incredible experience only surpassed by the dinner we enjoyed later that evening This was an evening I won’t soon forget and the perfect way to wind down our week in paradise.

05/02/2026

If I’m ever reported missing, tell the search party to check here first…on this beach hammock, in St. Lucia.

Who would you like to go missing with here?