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In 1996, SEE Shore Photography opened in Newburyport, MA. Since then I have taught hundreds of children and adults beginner and advanced photography classes and photographed professionally. My students have become professional photographers, build dynamic portfolios to apply to colleges and exhibit in the area’s most distinguished galleries.
I love to do both, teaching and photographing professionally. I am continually amazed and inspired by my students work. (Please visit my web page, student's photographs) Furthermore, being a photographer helps me inspire and teach my students about what it means to be a photographer, the good, the bad, and everything there is in the field of photography.
My area of focus in photography has been:
Weddings & Events (http://www.seeshorephoto.com/weddings--events.html),
Portraits (http://www.seeshorephoto.com/portraits.html)
Interior (http://www.seeshorephoto.com/interiors--exteriors.html)
Landscapes & Travel photography.
I began my love of photography in my family’s living room in the 1970’s. We use to watch slide shows that my Dad would put together on his Kodak carousels. He used a Nikon Nikkormat to photograph all of our family holidays, vacations, and birthday parties and partly these images is what began my love of photography.
As a teenager, I was given my first camera, a 110 Kodak underwater camera. Just like my Dad, I fell in love with taking photographs. As I began my college education, my Dad gave me his Nikon camera to take my first photography class with Bill Short at Bradford College. I quickly fell in love with photography and decided to get a B.A. with a concentration in photography. After gradating, I headed west and received a photography technical certification from the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, Montana. There I was grateful to be taught by some of the world’s most accomplished photographers such as, Galen Rowell, Dennis Darling, and Bruce Barnbaum (Ansel Adam's student). I learned to master my photography skills and how to be a professional photographer.
After graduating, I assisted a professional photographer, taught art and photography classes at various community art centers, including the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, MA and then decided to get my Master’s in Education in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University. This helped me to become the best photography teacher I could be for my students.
As a photographer, I think its important to exhibit my work. I have a permanent photography exhibit at the Portsmouth Children’s Museum in Portsmouth, NH, as well as have exhibited my photograph’s locally and nationally.
In addition, I also teach Intro. to Photography and Photojournalism at Quincy College and Intro. to Digital Photography at Newburyport’s Adult and Continuing Ed.
My husband Brad, who is also a professional photographer along with my dog, Wyatt who as of right now, chooses bones over cameras, live on Plum Island, Massachusetts.
I love to do both, teaching and photographing professionally. I am continually amazed and inspired by my students work. (Please visit my web page, student's photographs) Furthermore, being a photographer helps me inspire and teach my students about what it means to be a photographer, the good, the bad, and everything there is in the field of photography.
My area of focus in photography has been:
Weddings & Events (http://www.seeshorephoto.com/weddings--events.html),
Portraits (http://www.seeshorephoto.com/portraits.html)
Interior (http://www.seeshorephoto.com/interiors--exteriors.html)
Landscapes & Travel photography.
I began my love of photography in my family’s living room in the 1970’s. We use to watch slide shows that my Dad would put together on his Kodak carousels. He used a Nikon Nikkormat to photograph all of our family holidays, vacations, and birthday parties and partly these images is what began my love of photography.
As a teenager, I was given my first camera, a 110 Kodak underwater camera. Just like my Dad, I fell in love with taking photographs. As I began my college education, my Dad gave me his Nikon camera to take my first photography class with Bill Short at Bradford College. I quickly fell in love with photography and decided to get a B.A. with a concentration in photography. After gradating, I headed west and received a photography technical certification from the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, Montana. There I was grateful to be taught by some of the world’s most accomplished photographers such as, Galen Rowell, Dennis Darling, and Bruce Barnbaum (Ansel Adam's student). I learned to master my photography skills and how to be a professional photographer.
After graduating, I assisted a professional photographer, taught art and photography classes at various community art centers, including the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, MA and then decided to get my Master’s in Education in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University. This helped me to become the best photography teacher I could be for my students.
As a photographer, I think its important to exhibit my work. I have a permanent photography exhibit at the Portsmouth Children’s Museum in Portsmouth, NH, as well as have exhibited my photograph’s locally and nationally.
In addition, I also teach Intro. to Photography and Photojournalism at Quincy College and Intro. to Digital Photography at Newburyport’s Adult and Continuing Ed.
My husband Brad, who is also a professional photographer along with my dog, Wyatt who as of right now, chooses bones over cameras, live on Plum Island, Massachusetts.
