Bioé

“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
- W.E.B. DuBois

Black & White

Transformation from being the “picture taker” for family and friends, to photographer, began with enrolling in our local college. This introduced me to the photo lab, complete with processing film and working in the darkroom where the passion for photography took hold. No longer able to produce the silver gelatin print, my art work is produced in my home studio. A large portion of my images are worked in monochrome…some compositions just insist on being presented in the black-and-white format.

Carnival

A grouping of images that were produced in book form for a young family raising a family. The titles sufficiently identify the image as well as address the many challenges facing young parents.

Maine

My husband and I are just beginning our 3rd year of living in Maine. My computer files are full of images (and memories) from our 10+ years of visiting Maine prior to moving here in December of 2007. However, the 7 images shown in the gallery have all been taken within the past year.

Recent Awards

I maintain my membership in the Bowie-Crofton Camera Club (Maryland), which I’ve been affiliated with since 1999. This affords me the opportunity to receive the monthly newsletters, maintain contact with other photographers, and participate in the monthly competitions, which are thematic and challenge my creative skills. Four of the images in this gallery have received awards at the monthly competition since October 2009. Two of the images were juried into gallery shows, and the three tulip images were accepted into the Color Magazine competition and published. It was a very good year!

Not included in this gallery, “Sunrise Over Penobscot Bay” (Maine Gallery) has been accepted into a local publication promoting tourism in the mid-coast region of Maine.

Travel

Over the past ten years, along with my travels to Maine, I’ve been able to visit areas within our country and beyond. The three geographical areas presented in this gallery are among my favorites.

Tulips in Winter

Truly an experiment, spent tulip bouquets were placed on our snowy deck. The natural progression of weathering brought forth an unexpected beauty. I also find this a very close parallel to the natural progression of aging in all of us.

Water Beauty

The exploration of bodies of water begun in the Summer of 2005, continues to date. My morning readings include the local tide charts. Weather permitting, you can find me at the water’s edge if not wading knee-deep, carrying my camera and tripod.

Water Play

The five images in this gallery represent a body of work which were an offshoot of the Water Beauty pursuits, but include another fascination of mine, people and capturing them in that candid moment.

White on White

White, the healing color for the lungs, has special importance for my health. I also find it a challenge to successfully present an image with such a limited palette. I love it’s simplicity, elegance and subtle complexities.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

From Brockton, Massachusetts, to New Jersey at the age of 10, then further South to Maryland, I am now back home in New England. As a child, I left in a snow storm, only to return in a snow storm in December 2007.

Maine has been good for my art work. I am involved with my photography locally as well as maintaining involvement with my group in Maryland. I am evolving in photography as I work daily in my studio, take workshops and classes, enter juried shows, and meet with other local photographers.

I am an artist, have always known that I am an artist, have always produced art, and consider this journey of creativity to be only beginning. I strive to increase my “artistic vocabulary” by exposing myself to all art in an effort to become the best photographer I can be.

This summer, the day before my birthday, I received a very special gift. I had the distinct honor to meet the author of my favorite quote regarding art, one I’ve committed to memory and clung to since seeing it for the first time at Colby College, January 2004:

I may be contacted through our e-mail address, ann-john@artisansart.com. for further information. Also, many of my images, not included on this web site, may be seen at the camera club's flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/groups/b-ccc

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHS

Occasionally I shoot film with my Nikon F-3. The camera I use daily is my Nikon D300.

My studio is in our Lincolnville, Maine home where I process my images with Adobe Photoshop, printing on an Epson R2880, using Epson inks and papers.