Left, An image from Lee's days as a fashion photographer. Above, In the studio.
customers. It didn’t long for Lee to recognize the five
or six working pros who frequented the store and did the work that he sought. Just as Keith had done, they became not only his mentors (whose brains he picked every time they came to the store), but the pho- tographers he approached when he took his next step. Before long, Lee left the cam- era store and began working as an assistant for an area fashion photographer. Despite the cleanliness of the floors being one of his job responsibilities, he was working in a photography studio and soon was shooting product and catalog work by contract. With youthful confidence and ready to
take the next step to make his mark on the world, Lee packed everything he owned and moved to St. Petersburg,
Florida,
where he found work in a studio shooting fashion, tourism and commercial
advertising. Lee loved the excitement of his work, the
team and models he worked with and the ability to express himself creatively with a camera. Though he was living his dream shooting on the beaches of South Beach, he began to feel something was missing. His home in Birmingham, Ala., felt farther and farther away and the strong family ties binding the Harrelson family together so strongly began to tug on Lee’s heart. He missed his parents and the rest of his fam- ily. After two years in Florida, a job open- ing in the studio of Parisian, a Birmingham-based chain of upscale department stores, brought him home and the smile returned to his face. Harrelson spent the next nine years trav-
eling and creating fashion images across the country for not only Parisian, but Saks and Robinsons. Though he loved his work,
the travel began to take a toll. Calling fash- ion a “young single man’s kind of career,” about 16 years ago Harrelson made the decision to change specialties. His initial fear of the huge change in his
business model was made easier when he secured a contract for a local grocery chain as well as several contracts with cookbook publishers. Before long, Harrelson’s client list included names like Time Inc., Wen- dy’s, Chesters and Southern Living. The one-time delinquent given a camera by an older brother to get him off the streets was living his dream and able to keep the prom- ise he made to his parents so many years earlier to become just like Keith. As is the case with photography, Lee
credits his brothers for developing his interest in motorcycling. A man of many dreams and also wanting to be like his motorcycle riding older brothers Rob and
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