Beginnings of Photography Career
During college, rather than use drawings, Butcher presented his architecture projects by creating and photographing miniature scale models. He set the models next to small plants and trees to make them look real. After graduating college, Butcher began a career in architecture, and was responsible for a portion of the design of the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California. Upon losing his job, Butcher began showing his work at local street art festivals. He soon realized that he could make more money in photography than he was making in architecture. By 1970, he left architecture for landscape photography.
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