Because of a tragedy in my life, much of this website represents more of my past than the present.

I stopped photographing in 2022 to care for my terminally ill husband. My studio became his sick-room. Last April Robert died. Now I am just beginning to revive a sense of self.

Even during the bad times, I knew that when I would be alone I would return to photographing. So I was determined to maintain my qualification as a Certified Professional Photographer. My three-year term as a CPP would have ended last winter. Into the wee hours of the morning last winter I studied next to the hospital bed for the certification exam. I am certified until 2027.  

I also kept my connection to Professional Photographers of America, which granted me the Degree of Master, and its auxiliary, the American Society of Photographers. Photographers at ASP have been empathetic and encouraging. To my delight, my artwork “Forsaken” belongs to the ASP travelling exhibit “Makers Muse”, which in 2025 will be stopping at the Grapevine Tower Gallery in Grapevine, Texas, and in Houston at the Silos at Sawyers Yards and the Pearl Fincher Fine Art Museum. The exhibit has helped me revive my will to photograph.

In the spirit of “Forsaken”, I plan to continue photographing architecture. In this website, at the Gallery on architectural images viewers will see my work prior to 2022.

“Forsaken” is not a mere literal representation of a church. Rather, the image tells a story. The little abandoned church of “Forsaken” was founded in 1889 under the Union Methodist Episcopal Conference. The church lies on a now sparsely inhabited Pennsylvania rural route, just a few miles up from the historic Nicholson railway station that served the region in the era of coal mining. As the regional economy dissipated by the mid 20th century, the population dwindled. In the image “Forsaken” the church did not merely close. The skies shout that it was forsaken.

By way of my recovery, I turned my attention to photographing a modern building that houses a Jewish Temple near my home. The Temple permitted my husband, who unlike me was not Jewish, to be buried in their cemetery. My aim was to express both the monumentality and the beauty of the architecture. This is one of the images which I donated as a metal print that expresses my thanks to the Temple.

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