About Boyce Davis
Born in Corsicana, Texas. He served in The United States Air Force during the Korean War. Upon being discharged from the service in 1957 he moved his family to Arizona and attended Arizona State University, while working in the manufacturing business his father had formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953. Boyce remained in the family business for 36 years. He sold his company in September of 1993. He and his wife Betty moved to Prescott in December of 1995.
Boyce became interested in photography while traveling around the world for his business. He began to capture images of people, places and things of interest from every corner of the world. He then began filming the start-up and commissioning of plants his company had sold and installed, to be used as future sales tools and shown at world trade conferences.
Having been an animal lover his entire life, it was only natural for him to begin traveling and photographing wildlife throughout the western states, after retirement. Filming Elk in Colorado, Antelope in Montana and Wyoming and Buffalo in the Dakota’s were an extension of his photographic trips through Kruger National Park in South, Africa and the Wildlife Parks of Kenya.
Boyce and Betty designed and built their retirement home in Prescott and, at the time they moved in, there were no other homes near them, even though it was in a development only three miles from downtown Prescott. The elevation at their home is 5,680 feet above sea level and the elevation at the center of Prescott is 5,300 feet. The home is built among large Ponderosa pine trees with some measuring 28 to 30 inches in diameter.
After moving into their new home they began to hear, what they thought were, ducks quacking in the distance almost every night. They were sleeping with the bedroom window open just a bit to enjoy the fresh smell of pine. In a few days they saw a family herd of Javelina browsing near the back of the home. Here comes Boyce with his camera, and the rest of the story you can see on the Southwest Wildlife DVD.