Les Wollam was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, is a U.S. Navy veteran and has lived in both Spain and Japan. He has a BFA degree in photography from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and enjoyed a nearly 50–year career as a professional photographer including nine years in NYC and 36 years in Dallas working mostly in the corporate photography field. Clients included Halliburton, IBM and American Airlines and magazines Fortune, Forbes and Business Week. He has lived in Georgetown since January 2015.