Welcome and thanks for taking the time to visit...I hope I inspire you with my art!
I am a New York gal living in Central Virginia. I have had a camera in my hand since I was 11. My formal photographic education began in high school when I was the photo editor of the yearbook. My passion determined my college education, and I graduated from CSI/CUNY with a BS in Art/Photography. (Back in the day when film reigned and darkroom time was king!)
I look at photography as an art form. I am not merely recording life as I see it, but as I THINK it.
While photography begins as a true record of an event, scene or location, nothing is static. Everything changes. I often see beauty in places that others by-pass, and I enjoy manipulating the images I record to match the images in my mind.
I see things that aren’t there; hear the stories that whisper to me. After capturing ‘reality’ with my Canon Xsi, I freely and cheerfully post-process using Lightroom and PSE9 (and using actions offered by http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/) until the image releases the emotion I want to evoke. It’s been there all along, it just needed me to envision it to make it so.
One of my longest running interests has been in, as I call it, ‘peeling paint’...the old, falling down, rusting, surviving architecture of our throwaway world… Far more interesting than watching paint dry!
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Welcome and thanks for taking the time to visit...I hope I inspire you with my art!
I am a New York gal living in Central Virginia. I have had a camera in my hand since I was 11. My formal photographic education began in high school when I was the photo editor of the yearbook. My passion determined my college education, and I graduated from CSI/CUNY with a BS in Art/Photography. (Back in the day when film reigned and darkroom time was king!)
I look at photography as an art form. I am not merely recording life as I see it, but as I THINK it.
While photography begins as a true record of an event, scene or location, nothing is static. Everything changes. I often see beauty in places that others by-pass, and I enjoy manipulating the images I record to match the images in my mind.
I see things that aren’t there; hear the stories that whisper to me. After capturing ‘reality’ with my Canon Xsi, I freely and cheerfully post-process using Lightroom and PSE9 (and using actions offered by http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/) until the image releases the emotion I want to evoke. It’s been there all along, it just needed me to envision it to make it so.
One of my longest running interests has been in, as I call it, ‘peeling paint’...the old, falling down, rusting, surviving architecture of our throwaway world… Far more interesting than watching paint dry!