Born in Piggott, Arkansas in 1947, Carl's photographic journey has been a long one. In the mid-1950s, his father, William E. "Dink" Hitt, served two terms as county tax assessor. It was in the courtroom adjacent to Dink's office in the old Clay County Court House where Carl was first inspired to become a filmmaker.

There on a quiet summer's evening in 1955, he, Dink, and a small group of other Piggott residents, watched a wildlife film produced and presented by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, which featured fishing for large alligator gar using deep-sea fishing equipment near the mouth of the Saint Francis River. Although it would take many years for Carl to realize his dream, the seed had been planted.

In the late 1960s, while in the United States Air Force, Carl became a serious amateur photographer honing his photographic skills. In 1972 he enrolled at the University of Arkansas, and while working on his degree, he also took photography courses. This led to him being offered a job as Chief Photographer for the University's Division of Information, News Service. Putting his degree on hold in 1974, Carl took that job and held it for the next ten years. It was during this time that he produced his first documentary films.

In January 1991, Carl moved to Santa Barbara, California to attend film school. However, after realizing the financial invest that venture was going to require, he move back to Fayetteville, where he completed his BA in May of 1995 and his MA in May of 1997. Then he went back to work for the University of Arkansas in an administrative position.

Scrimping and saving, Carl finally managed to buy a semi-professional video camera in 2002 and began filming nature.

In May of 2003 while filming crayfish in Fayetteville's Wilson Park, Carl learned that a family of red-shouldered hawks was nesting there. Thus began the journey that lead to his first major documentary film, "The Hawks of Wilson Park."

Since then Carl has produced three more significant documentaries, "We See Nature," which highlights the four seasons in Arkansas; "The Old Main Story," which is a comprehensive history of the Old Main building on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville; and "Natural State Waterfalls, Vol. 1," which showcases fourteen of Arkansas' beautiful waterfalls.

So what is Carl's next project? Right now, he is not saying but he promises that it will be his best film ever.