Lefty Ray Chapa: Outdoor photographer and writer

Lefty Ray Chapa is a professional freelance outdoor photographer and writer, and you’ve seen his work in Clay Target Nation during the past couple of years. As the official photographer of the NSSA and NSCA, Lefty has traveled all over the U.S. photographing skeet and sporting clays events. Through pure coincidence, he lives just miles from the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio. Lefty photographs anything having to do with a fly rod or a shotgun. His work has appeared in American Waterfowler magazine, Southwest Fly Fishing magazine, Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine, Texas Highways magazine, the San Antonio Express-News newspaper, and many more. He currently authors the “Lefty’s Blind Bag” column in American Waterfowler magazine. He has won numerous national awards in photography from the Outdoor Writers of Association of America (OWAA) and numerous regional awards from the Texas Outdoor Writers Association (TOWA). His favorite award-winning photo is the silhouette of his wife and grandson against the sunrise that appeared in a recent Kent cartridge catalog centerfold. Lefty Ray is also the credited photographer on two Grammy-winning albums and more than a dozen Grammy and Latin Grammy-nominated albums. In the music industry, he is known as the guy who fell off a speaker in Las Vegas while on assignment during the Tex Mex Fest Tour. If you follow social media, you might have seen his images on Instagram or Facebook for companies like Kent Cartridge, Franchi, Fiocchi, Benelli, Syren, Hevi-Shot, Drake Waterfowl, Shimano, G. Loomis, and others. When not shooting with a camera, he is casting a fly to tail redfish on the nearby Texas coast during the summer or knocking down ducks with a shotgun during the winter. His motto during waterfowl season is, “No duck blind is too far, too crowded, or too cold.” You can find Lefty on Instagram at lefty.ray.chapa, on Facebook as Lefty Ray, on Twitter as @LeftyRay, or via email at leftyray@leftyray.com. And if you see him behind the lens at an event, give him a thumbs-up and a smile.[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/21749531/height-orig/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/custom-color/ba2000/height/90″ height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”bottom” theme=”custom”]