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In the early 80’s I bought medium and large format film cameras, built a darkroom for both black and white and color processing and began a new era in my photographic career. In the early 90/s I became a participant in the Healing Arts program at one of the large medical institutions in the Texas Medical Center and donated hundreds of large prints over the years for use in patient rooms, in addition to providing prints for the halls. I have also donated my time photographing for various non-profit organizations that benefit Children with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
In 2001 I decided the time was right to convert to a complete digital workflow. Today I continue to do both color and black and white work covering varied subject matter but with an emphasis on the natural landscape, “old things” and abstracts. My work can be seen in corporate and law offices, hospitals, clinics, and in numerous private collections.
My work has been exhibited in solo and juried group exhibitions regionally and nationally, and is in the permanent collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities Museum at the University of Texas at Austin. Texas, and the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas.
I live in both Houston. Texas and Keystone Colorado with my husband, Dale, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist and our English white lab Maggie. We have a son, Stephen, a physician who resides in Houston and is an Orthopedic Surgeon. Our daughter Christine died in 1989 during her sophomore year in college due to complications with her disability. (Christine was born with Spina Bifida and developed Epilepsy as a teen).
I enjoy hiking, our English Lab Maggie, , driving and exploring jeep trails in the Colorado backcountry, and travel. I also have an interest and fascination with theoretical Particle Physics and String Theory, Grand Unification theory, the origin of the Universe and “where we all came from”....In addition the Psychodynamics of human behavior and adaptation and our journey and growth in wisdom throughout life.
...also, see “getting the shot”
Clients and Publications
Juror’s award, Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2015
Eleanor, age 2,
with first camera
I am a Fine Art photographic artist living in Houston, Texas and Keystone, Colorado (Keystone since 1978...am I a “local” yet :-). I love our Natural World so much of my work reflects this life long passion of mine. I also enjoy doing work that involves “old Things” such as rusted metals, scratched glass, frayed fabrics, weathered woods....things that have been allowed to “age naturally”. And last, I enjoy doing abstract work in both color and black and white. I have several ongoing series that fit this description on my portfolio pages.
A little history...I have always had a fascination with the mechanics and magic of the camera. When I was age two, I’m told one of my favorite “playthings” was an old Kodak Brownie box camera. At age five I had an “updated version” of the old Brownie camera and can remember pointing it at whatever caught my eye and snapping the shutter! When I graduated from high school, I was asked what I would like to have as a graduation gift and of course I chose a new camera! (During college years and then raising two young children my photography took a back seat for a while to be picked up later.)
As a child my family would spend part of every summer in Rocky Mountain National Park. Those experiences in this wonderful place were to shape the rest of my life and since then I have felt compelled to record with my camera what I feel and experience when surrounded by this natural beauty. I have found that “wildness” as Thoreau would call it, is an absolute necessity in my life...as something that nourishes, enriches, heals, and gives me peace, solitude and a sense of inspiration and wonder.
I initially began photographing with a 35mm film camera for publication selling my photographs of nature and wildlife (primarily birds) to organizations such as the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, Ducks Unlimited Magazine, Birder’s World, Telarc International, and also for use in various book publications.