Tom Leutwiler (September 7, 1948 – November 19, 1993) was a sailing photographer, whose work appeared on the covers of Yachting and Yacht Racing magazines, and was published in Time, Sailing World, Seahorse (England), Voile et Voiles (France) and others for nearly two decades. His dry sense of humor became as much a part of the Leutwiler trademark as his photography. As founder of Leutwiler Photography, Leutwiler captured moments in sailing with his Hasselblad cameras and produced calendars, sold coast-to-coast, from 1979 to 1990. His aerial photographs have been displayed by CBS News, NBC News, Turner Broadcasting, DuPont, the Audubon Society, E.F. Hutton, Hewlett Packard, Warner Communications, the U.S. Senate and United States House of Representatives, and the White House. Early life Leutwiler was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Charles and Virginia Leutwiler, and his heritage traces back to the Leutwil municipality of Switzerland. Leutwiler grew up in Glendale, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and at the age of 14, he attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank possible. He graduated from Kirkwood High School in 1966 and participated in the School Newspaper, Chemistry Club, Biology Club, and German Club. He majored in business at University of Tulsa and Washington University in St. Louis, and served as Vice-President of Sales and President of Junior Achievement. Before founding his own business, Leutwiler held a variety of sales positions at the Fuller Brush Company, and Allied Electronics. Personal life Leutwiler married in 1978, and lived in Peabody, Massachusetts and Danvers, Massachusetts with his wife and two stepsons Matt and Adam. He operated Leutwiler Photography from home, and members of the family often appeared in the quarterly Shooting the Breeze newsletter and assisted in running the business. Leutwiler Photography 1973 In June 1973, Leutwiler used a professional 35 mm system to photograph his first sailboat race, the Marblehead, Massachusetts to Halifax, Nova Scotia race. He later stated the "quality was a disaster by my standards today", but as result of this race, Deadelus Photography was born (name changed to Leutwiler Photography in 1979). Leutwiler quickly realized that 35 mm would not produce sufficient images for professional enlargements, and soon made the permanent transition to Hasselblad cameras. He slowly began to find his market, selling his photographs primarily to sailboat owners, crew members, boat manufacturers, sailing magazines, and calendars published by magazines. In a 1987 interview with the St. Louis