Raoul Pop

Life is what we make of it. My aim is to make mine worth it. My name is Raoul Pop. I am an author, photographer, architectural conservator-restorer, entrepreneur, filmmaker and consultant. I am half Romanian, half Hungarian by birth and American by upbringing. I emigrated to the United States with my family in 1991 and grew [...]

Back in 2005, I started writing what I’d planned to be a non-fiction book about NRAO (the National Radio Astronomy Observatory), based on visits, photos and interviews to this interesting place. My contact was Wesley Sizemore, NRAO’s public face and “Keeper of the Quiet”, a term which will make more sense to you once you [...]

My wife and I lived in Maryland for several years and one of our favorite places to visit was the Potomac River and its little brother, the C&O Canal. We traveled to various spots along the river, mostly on the Maryland side, hiking through the forest, trudging through the marshland, biking alongside the Canal and [...]

You can commission me to photograph products, food and locations (restaurants, hotels, businesses), or for portraiture. Please be advised, I don't photograph weddings or parties. The terms of my commercial photography licenses usually apply but we can arrange the particulars when we talk about the work that I will do. For product photography or portraits, you can [...]