Photocomposites | Pixel Art was started by Patrick King when he wanted to begin to distribute his many photos that he felt were just "collecting dust."

Pat has spent nearly 40 years taking photos as he has been hiking, backpacking, or cycling throughout the western United States and Canada.  He was born in Idaho but moved to Utah at an early age. He came to love the varied landscapes of Utah.  From the red rock deserts to the high snow covered mountains, he has never been able to say he liked one better than the other. He loves them both. He says, "The only thing we don't have in Utah are the beautiful beaches of California, Oregon and Washington."

Pat graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Architecture degree but has used his design training in many other fields.  Before graduating he had already found that photography was the path he wanted to follow for his future work.  Rather than doing a building design for his thesis project, he wrote a research report on Pueblo Indian religious architecture which included many photographs and drawings. This project has since been published as a book and recently was turned into a web site for the Internet.  

For many years Pat photographed buildings for architects in Salt Lake City and throughout the West.  He also created multi-image slide shows for architects and industrial clients using computers to control two to ten slide projectors at a time.  This led to his use of computers for graphics.

Pat now designs web sites for the Internet.  This has taken him into the world of digital photography which has eliminated the many hours he used to spend in the darkroom.  See Fine Art Prints.

He enjoys bringing a photo or groups of photos into Photoshop and seeing what might evolve.  It can take many hours, or days, to remove a background in order to blend two or more photos into one.  Pat hopes that you enjoy having these photos in your home or office as much as he enjoys creating them.

At the right are photos Pat took while working as a volunteer at the 2002 Winter Olympics at Snowbasin near Ogden, Utah.