He went on to work for Marine Photographic Associates (MPA), a Santa Barbara, CA based production company that specialized in underwater photography and filmmaking.
His first credit as director of photography was on the first IMAX film to be nominated for an Academy Award - The Eruption of Mount St.
[3] Between 1982 and 1984 Neihouse worked as a news cameraman at the Santa Barbara, CA ABC affiliate KEYT.
It was during filming that Neihouse met his future wife, Miss Leslie Vock, a NASA public affairs specialist at KSC.
He also oversees and assists in IMAX hardware integration into the NASA space flight system.