Alta has
been in the audio visual field for over 25 yrs. She taught ROP
(regional occupations program) audio visual, media production and
videotaping on the high school level at Vintage High School in Napa,
California She also was in charge of the media center at Napa Valley
College and trained several students in the set up and use of
various types of audio visual equipment.
George attended Northern Arizona University and majored in education
and then later received a masters degree in audio visual technology.
During his early career, he studied photography under Ansel Adams
and came to love photography, both portrait and environmental. He
taught photography on the high school and college level for 36
years.
Alta and her husband, George founded a photography and video
business in California. They had a complete photo studio, processing
lab, and video production lab. Together they photographed and taped
many weddings in the Napa Valley. Alta also produced many
instructional videos and promo videos for several local wineries and
other organizations, in addition to more personal videos
transferring old movies, photos and slides to video with music. Her
claim to fame is videotaping a promo when her favorite quarterback,
Steve Young visited a high school in Mariposa, California for two
years in a row. George’s photography won many awards, including
“People’s Choice at the Napa Valley Mustard Festival two years in a
row.
Their company was contacted by APDT and hired to videotape the
conference in Memphis, Tennessee. After selling their storefront
business in California, both retired and moved to Boise, Idaho, where
they enjoy their grandchildren and keep busy taping seminars and
learning how to train their very spoiled, but well loved dogs.
Tawzer Dog Videos is the dream of owners George and Alta Tawzer.
They
first became interested when asked to videotape an APDT conference
several years ago. They found there was so much valuable information
out there on positive training that could contribute to a better
environment and dog-friendly training for our canine friends that
they
began asking the instructors if they could videotape their
presentations and make them available to the public.
Over the years many wonderful and knowledgeable speakers have
allowed Tawzer Dog Videos to videotape their lectures and seminars.
Tawzer Dog Videos only offers material that
incorporates positive training methods.
"Bringing
Up Baby" --- Ruby and Ginger
