When I was a child, I opened the back of my first camera

and exposed all of the film. That unforgiving experience made

me look upon equipment as something to avoid, overcome, put

up with, and then finally befriend. Since that first learning

experience, my photographic works have been the result of an

interior journey. Starting seriously in the seventies as I also

worked in technical and graphics arts but greatly influenced by

the sixties, honed in the eighties, then put on pause in the

nineties and with many forks and dead ends in the ‘roads’

leading up to today. I have always wanted my work to be more

than just recording the visible and more than shades and

shapes. I hope my images make visible a little of myself and

that interior journey I have been on.

Worked in circuit drafting photography, offset printing photography and freelance photography before returning to school to get a BS, MS and PhD (Physics, Systems Eng., Systems and Industrial Eng., respectively). Worked for 1 year in aerospace then 9 years for Agricultural Research Service (research branch of USDA). Resigned (or early retired due to illness of my late husband) and curated artwork for a Tucson coffeehouse for 5 years and ran my own gallery for a year. While I have had images in photography exhibits and galleries in the past, I had my first solo show of my work in Tucson, Arizona at Kuzu Salon and Studio March 26th through April 17th, 2010. Now I am now showing my work in the northwest in galleries and as a juried participant in the annual Camano Island Studio Tour. In 2012 I had the honor of one of my images being invited to the show RED at Etherton's Temple Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. I appreciate my flickr friends and all the encouragement that comments have had on my productivity. If you make me a contact, please leave me a comment or two to introduce yourself. More likely that I will follow your stream too then.

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