… that Guy in Milton

Many years ago, I got a phone call at the Studio and the lady asked me, “Are you that guy in Milton that does photography”? I liked the phrase so much I have used it ever since, now for 21 years. So many people have searched “that guy in Milton” on Google,  my website appears at the top of the Google list.
Sterling Images of NC
Owned and operated by Pat Bullock, we specialize in Professional Color and Black & White Portraiture. Since 1997, Sterling Images continues to grow each year by providing Professional Courteous Photography at affordable prices, we don’t project your images, we print real proofs on Kodak Pro Paper and give them to you with package you order, that’s right, the proofs you received and ordered from are Free if you just order a package.

Pat Bullock,
My life’s journey to this point has taken me though different professional channels but I think photography was so deeply rooted in my system I was destined to return.

In 1975, at 16,  I shot my first wedding with a Yashica Mat 124 Camera and developed the B/W prints in our Darkroom. I followed my brother’s footsteps in High School on the Yearbook staff and as the local Photographer in our town. In my senior year, I decided to go to College for Electronics. During College I met my wife of 30 years, then after graduating in Electronics I went to work for CP&L as an Electronics Tech. I continued with CP&L for almost 20 years spending the last 10 years in Management at Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Raleigh NC. In 1997 I left CP&L and returned to Professional Photography as General Manager of a Professional Photography Colour Lab in Charlotte NC and started Sterling Images of NC.
In 2007 after almost 10 years in the Colour Lab business, the decision was again obvious; I returned to photography fulltime and devoted myself to Sterling Images. We are truly a family business, my wife and daughters all work in the business along with my Parents and my Wife’s Parents. My son-in law, my niece, Brother and Sister in law and numerous friends also help us in the business. My wife and family have always supported the business, without them I know it would fail. I never wanted my business named after me, since it is truly a Family business I got the name from my Father in law, Sterling Hudson, (our Custom Framer).

I don’t believe there is a better job on the planet that allows you to touch more lives than Photography. There is also no better feeling than a mother crying when she looks at a Portrait of her child that we created at Sterling Images. Thanks to all of our many loyal customers, it is truly a pleasure working with each of you.

Licensed Professional Photographers;
I strongly believe that to be a Professional Photographer you must first acquire a License to sell photographs in your state, you then must make the time plus financial investment to be members of a Professional Photography Organizations, and continue your Professional Photography training each year. Since returning to Photography fulltime, we are proud members of “PPNC”, Professional Photographers of NC and “SPI”, Senior Photographers International and SYNC,  Senior Youth Conference and attend those conventions regularly. We also attend the “East Coast” Photography School and have trained under World Famous Photographers Doug Box, Tony Corbell, and Bry Cox, and Gary Box.
Professional Recognition;

Our Senior Portraits and Family Portraits won photographic merits in competition.  Through the years dating back to 2008 our prints have won National, State and International Awards, Best of Show in those conventions. Our trademark Hardcover High School Senior Boy and Girls Books both won Honor Awards at the Senior Photographer International Convention in Fla. We also were recognized as one of the top 400 High School Senior Photographers in the United States. We have been voted the “ Caswell Messengers Readers Best Photographer” for 6 years. Our business Portraits have won First Place  and also Best of Show at the East Coast Photography School in Raleigh NC.