A subsidiary of ProPhotoResource.com , ProPhotoMusic is owned and operated by a collective group of Photographers, Musicians and Studio Owners. Our mission is to bring the highest quality royalty free music, at affordable prices to photographers for use in slideshows, websites and presentations.

Management Team 

Cris Mitchell - Founder / Publisher / Musician
Formerly trained in the Graphic Arts, Cris has spent the past 18 years working in the creative and video production industries. Cris is an avid photographer, specializing in Landscape and Portrait photography and has won both regional and national awards for his work. Cris is also the publisher of www.prophotoresource.com a website dedicated to the art and advancement of professional photographers the world over. To view his photographic work at www.crismitchellphotography.com

Cris has also been an accomplished musician for over 20 years with numerous recording credits to his name including his popular instrumental music release Wind Journey's. Cris oversees operations at ProPhotoMusic.com and ProPhotoResource.com as well as working with musicians to bring top quality royalty free music to ProPhotoMusic.com

 John Lehmkuhl - Co-Founder / Musician / Chief Songwriter
John Lehmkuhl is a professional musician now living in Portland, Oregon. Since 1988 he's been one of the key members of Korg's voicing team whose presets appear in the T1, O1W, Wavestation, Trinity, Triton, KARMA, OASYS, and Wavedrum, just to name a few. His drum samples, synth samples, acoustic instrument samples, drum kit mapping, synth programming, Combination creation, KARMA creations and demo sequences reveal John's many talents in synth and sound design. John also has two drum loop libraries (Skippy's Big Bad Beats and Skippy's NoizBox)that are now Stylus RMX S.A.G.E. Xpanders distributed by ILIO. He also has created sample banks and presets for www.samplebase.com .

John has also worked on films, commercials and record projects for artists and clients around the world (Mariah Carey, Kenny Loggins, Ambrosia, Randy Jackson, Whitney Houston, The Yellowjackets, Hanz Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Harry Gregson-Williams). Learn more about John, and check out his amazing photographic work at www.realkuhl.com .

Harry Gale - Co-Founder / Recording Engineer / Musician
Hailing from New York, Harry started out playing guitar in various bands in the late 70’s.

In the 80's Harry relocated to Northern California where he has continued to be a fixture in the Sonoma, Marin and SF Bay Area Music Scenes for the past 28 years. Playing guitar for such bands as Mantis, The Tumblers, Broken Ties, Lovetribe and The Oakley Krieger Band, Harry has shared the stage with Rock luminaries such as, Warren Haynes (Allman Bros., Govt Mule) Robbie Krieger (The Doors), Waylon Krieger, Berry Oakley Jr., Devon Allman, Duane Betts, Billy Carmassi (Aldo Nova) as well as opening for acts as: Bonham, Govt Mule, The Tubes, Foghat, Widepread Panic and many more. Harry contributes his studio expertise as well as musical abilities to  the team at ProPhotoMusic.