“I want to capture the beauty and
emotion of light, for that is the
essence of God.”
Back in 1980, I borrowed my sister’s 35mm camera while visiting her in
Colorado. I was awestruck by the beauty of the mountains and took many
pictures in Rocky Mountain National Park. After returning to New Jersey and
seeing the results of my first photographic adventure, I ran out to buy my first
35mm camera and vowed I would someday live in Colorado.
I am a self-taught photographer, learning through written material, from the
knowledge of various photographers I have met through the years and through a
lot of trial and error.
I lived in Maine for ten years practicing my photographic skills and working full
time as a registered nurse. I worked in the local hospital nursery, both as a nurse
and a photographer, with a successful business photographing the baby’s first pictures. Even though I enjoy taking portraits, my true love is to photograph God’s beautiful creations in nature and, with that in mind, I moved with my son and my partner to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
I started my business, Yarra Images, selling fine art landscape and nature photography prints and cards, while I continue to work in the medical field.
I have won several awards for my work and I sell prints and/or cards in
many different locations, including Poor Richard's Book Store, Colorado Springs; Gallery of Life,Colorado Springs; Pikes Perk Coffee Houses, (several locations in Colorado Springs); Gentry’s Flowers, Colorado Springs; The Green Horse Gallery,
Manitou Springs; and The Great Frame Up, Amesbury, MA.
I use both a Nikon D300 and a Nikon F100 camera body with a variety of Nikon lenses, a Manfrotto tripod by Bogen, Tiffen filters, Sandisk memory cards or Fuji Velvia film and I carry it all in a Tamrac backpack. When I take my photographs, I use filters and camera adjustments to get the original digital file or slide to fit my vision of the photograph. If any cleaning or adjustments are needed afterwards, I use Adobe Photoshop CS4 to do the digital work. Ascent Photo Imaging, in Colorado Springs, prints all my photographs with Fuji archival inks and papers and Reed Photo Imaging, in Denver, does all my film processing. For more information on equipment, digital software and printing, please refer to the websites on the left.