About Chazz

Chazz Layne is an amateur photographer, producer and avid outdoorsman living in the American Southwest.

He was born in 1980 in Newport Beach, California, where (for the most part) he was raised. The only child of two recovering hippies, Chazz grew up an eccentric – his youth was spent traveling the cities of the West, exploring the woods of Appalachia, and swimming the beaches of the Carolinas and the Gulf Coast. He has been blessed with a sharp logic, a stubborn will, and a simplistic approach towards life. His vices include British motorcars, Argentine wine and country music.

Chazz graduated from high school two years early and headed to college. After switching majors from English to Photography to Political Science he decided working in IT sounded like fun and began studying for a MCSE/MCDBA Certification. Four years later the “privilege” of being on-call 24/7 ultimately drove him to flee the techie world in search of a less demanding career that wouldn’t keep him tied to a terminal.

Today Chazz heads up production for a marketing design firm out of southern California, taking the opportunity to dabble in graphic design, web development and photography whenever possible. When not at work he enjoys hiking, hunting, exploring the wilderness, and the occasional good book (or far more elusive good movie) – and the company of Danielle, his wife of 10 years.