Based in Alexandria, VA and Stonington, Maine photographer Barbara Southworth has a passion to be outdoors and a vision rooted in the woods and waters of the east coast. Noted particularly for panoramic images and masterful prints, her work is featured in private, institutional and corporate collections, exhibitions and installations, including Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge's Herbert H. Bateman Center in sizes up to 30 feet long.

She believes we owe a debt of gratitude to all who work to sustain whole communities and places through private and public conservation. Her goal is "to communicate as truly as, and as much as is visually possible, the whole experience, the ineffable sense, of being bound to a place through its trees and plants, rocks and waters." Maine is her muse.

She leads classes and workshops combining hiking and photography independently and for the Smithsonian and Northern Virginia Community College, and offers digital imaging classes and consulting.

Please plan on joining Barbara at Chili's for some informal socializing before the competition at 6:00 PM.

Sandi Croan
Co-VP Competitions
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