A good decision 21 years agoA Family Affair

A good decision 21 years ago

A Family Affair

The man who grew up with photography never wanted to be a photographer.

The man whose photographer father encouraged him not to follow in his footsteps spends his days surrounded by tripods and 8-by-10s and shelves packed with black, wooden frames.

The man, who as a college student at the University of Montana majored in journalism, dreamed of being a radio or television news reporter.

This is Steve Helmbrecht. And he's a photographer.

"I had planned on going into electronic journalism or becoming some radio announcer or TV commentator," Helmbrecht...