Aug 20, 20153 min
Eli was born in New York. During his childhood he moved to Puerto Rico for five years. It was during these years that his grandfather (RIP) taught him to play pool. He traveled back and forth several times from New York to Puerto Rico until he settled in New York during high school and studied law and justice at John Jay Law and Justice Academy.
Boring.
A self-taught photographer, for his “entire life” he always was exposed to and “had access to a camera.” Nineteen ninety-seven was a most memorable year, because it was then that he became a professional freelance photographer.
Must be just horrible. Blah.
The rest of the Eli Ceballos family are quite accomplished too. Wife Kimberly is not only a special education teacher who continues to study current changes and practices within the system, but also a very talented woman in several other areas.
She is a “very good photographer” in her own right, a nail technician as well as a makeup artist who does assist Eli with some of his photo shoots.” The talent doesn’t end here.
Seventeen year old son, Nathaniel, loves and is highly accomplished in high school science, with nearly perfect scores skyrocketing him to the 90th percentile not only in science, but also overall academically. Fourteen year old daughter, Alexia, is quite the math wiz, testing at perfect scores statewide four years in a row.
I’m beginning to understand why Eli thought this article would not be interesting.
During the next juncture of his career, Eli made the transition to graphic artist. During this stint he zoomed in on the fact that rather than paying for needed photographs for this job, he could do well on his own capturing photographs through his own lens rather than paying others to do it.
Eli’s present focus is his dedication to fashion modeling. He creates Lookbooks. Basically, these are books for potential buyers to view upcoming clothing collections.
Also, he’s clicked away at several major pool events held at Steinway Billiards, New York, NY, including The Ginky (George San Souci) Memorial Tournament as well as the World Women’s 10-Ball Tournament. Eli holds another role at Steinway Billiards: League Director of the BCA National Amateur Pool League (NAPL) under the direction of Pro Player Tony Robles.
Eli runs 8-Ball leagues with six to ten teams, typically, participating in each during separate sessions.
Man, what a drag it must be to be a successful league coordinator with teams playing out of Steinway Billiards, sheez.
Yup, not at all interesting.
Eli has big plans for his future. He wants to be a very high end photographer of a portrait collection of top players. Also, he wants to tell stories of pool in an editorial manner. He noted a parallel between pool and photography which is one never stops learning in either.
Eli and Kimberly are “huge proponents of higher education,” not leaving much time for recreation. Undoubtedly, as their very intelligent children continue to learn and grow in life, so shall each of them. Eli has a Facebook account, and accepts friend requests. His website is www.cryfoto.com.
Check out the pictures on his site to further add reason to why Eli Ceballos is not interesting. Yeah, right!
It is with great pleasure that I have written this article for Eli and his family. Thank you so much for the opportunity, Eli. Having been living a life of hell thus far, I sure hope your life gets better at some point!