Ron Finley is an accomplished photographer, cinematographer, animator, and television writer/director, and designer. His TV writing and directing credits range from Sesame Street to Masterpiece Theater to Tales From the Crypt (4 seasons). His awards include the Emmy and Cleo. He has taught film production, special effects, and cinematography at the UCLA extension.
 
As a commercial photographer and director with studios in New York and Los Angeles, he has created over a thousand TV and print ads with a national client list including:

Proctor and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson and Johnson, Unilever, Pantene, Taylor Wines, McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, Red Lobster, Holiday Inn, Coca Cola, Pillsbury, General Mills, Minute Rice, Ralston-Purina, Keebler, Lowenbrau, Pabst, Stroh's, and Miller Beers, Chrysler Motors, Mattel , Mars Candy, Sears , Activision, Nintendo, Parker Brothers, The Marine Corps, Mutual Benefit Life, Fruit of the Loom, Ciba-Geigy, Black and Decker, Delta Airlines, Lego/Fisher-Price, and so forth.
 

So what, you may ask, is he doing in a photo studio in Westlake Village, California?

Having a ball