A native of Boise, Idaho, Chad left for boot camp with the Air National Guard right out of high school. Graduating with honors from boot camp, he returned to Boise where he began working for a commercial photography studio in town while attending the local university. After five years in the studio Chad moved to Alaska to pursue adventure, photography and free living. In the beautiful Alaskan frontier Chad refined his photography while working exciting and deadly jobs like crab fishing in the Bering Sea and fighting wild fires in the summer. In 2001, after six years of living in a single room cabin with no running water, he and his wife Kathleen decided to move back home to Boise and start a family. He is the proud father of three little girls, his oldest Annika and his twins Elsa and Olivia.