Tom Burton (TWBurton@aol.com)
Senior Staff Photographer
The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel

Tom Burton was born in St. Petersburg, Fla. in 1960. At the start of his senior year in high school, he got his first newspaper job with the Citrus County Chronicle in Inverness, Fla., writing about junior varsity sports. In college, he worked as a paste-up artist at the Gainesville Sun while earning a degree in journalism from the University of Florida.

He was hired as a staff photographer at The Orlando Sentinel in 1983 and was promoted to senior staff photographer in 1988. He lives in Orlando with his wife Susan and their three children; Adam, 12, Elise, 10 and Dustin, 8.