Tall Tom

While Tom’s past passion has been real estate, his new passion is hiking, backpacking and photographing nature. He has had an interest in photography going back into his childhood. He has taken numerous courses on photography over the years as well as simply learning by doing. Tom has also enjoyed the outdoors, hiking, camping, boating and fishing, since early childhood and spent many a day and/or night with one or more of his three sons and often with their friends out enjoying the outdoors. He renewed his passion for the outdoors in 2003 when he and his son Mike started climbing the NY Adirondack Mountain “High Peaks”. It continued with more hiking and backpacking in 2004 and 2005 culminating with his solo thru-hike of the Northville-Placid Trail (September 21 - October 8, 2005) and permanent relocation to Lake Placid, NY in November, 2005.

Tom got started with selling his photographs by accident, really. He matted and framed some for friends and family for Christmas, 2004. They were a hit and the suggestion was made that he should start selling them. He opened up a small gallery-workshop separate from his real estate office and put together 40 matted and framed photos. His landlord liked what he saw and purchased 25 of them to hang in the hallways of the complex. With that encouraging boost, Tom then sought out other avenues for the sale of his photos and ended up on the art and craft show circuit. He displayed and sold his photos at shows in Lake George, Warrensburg, Canandaigua, Corning, Oswego, Clayton, Alexandria Bay, Albany and Palmyra. Acceptance and sales of his photos were encouraging, leading to his checking out and obtaining rental space in Lake Placid for a permanent gallery-workshop which opened the second week of November, 2005.

Since 2003, Tom has been using a light-weight (ideal for backpacking) Nikon Coolpix, 5 megapixel, digital camera. It has a built-in 28 to 105mm zoom and controls that allow for fully automatic or manual or anything in between operation. For further information feel free to call Tom at 518-523-4000.

Tom Wemett (aka, “Tall Tom”) sort of retired in 2005 from a long and successful real estate career spanning over 30 years. He owned and operated traditional real estate companies for years eventual changing over to representing buyers only (exclusive buyer representation) from 1992 through 2005. Tom was a founding member of NAEBA, the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents, a national association of approximately 1000 home buyer specialists from around the country. He served in many leadership roles with NAEBA including as their national President in 2003. He remains a NY state Licensed Real Estate Broker and continues to advocate for buyers only in the Tri-Lakes (Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, Lake Placid) Region as a real estate consultant. You can contact him at 518-523-4000 or by e-mail if you are interested in pursuing the purchase of property in the Tri-Lakes Region. If you are considering the purchase of property in other areas of the country you can locate a buyer specialist by going to his real estate web-site.