Craig Spiering

Craig Spiering is a photographer living in Northern Virginia. Spiering studied photography at the Defense Information School in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland and worked as a U.S. Navy Photographer from 2002 to 2006 with an enlisted rating of Photographers Mate. Spiering also received a secondary rating of Photojournalist after completing the Defense Information School’s Intermediate Photojournalism Course in 2004. He currently has 120 images featured on the U.S. Navy’s official web site, 118 featured in Wikimedia Commons, and many more in various military magazines and websites, often published under the name “Craig R. Spiering”. Spiering was awarded a Joint Service Achievement Medal in 2005 both for his photography and for his supervision of Navy photographers during Hurricane Katrina relief efforts along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Spiering now resides in Northern Virginia with his family and he photographs weddings in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Washington D.C. through his business, Spiering Photography.