Rosemary Smith was first trained to take black and white photographs of archaeological sites and artifacts when she studied archaeology in college and grad school.  If she closes her eyes, she can still smell the chemicals in the dark room.  Her career, however, took her into the fields of law and science fiction writing.  Many years later, in 2007, her husband, John Naman gave her a Canon G-9.  He told her to be aware of backgrounds and to use a polarizer.  Actually, he told her a great many other things, but those are what stuck.  So she began photographing what she always loved, the unexpected beauties of nature and the lives of the creatures around us.

The collection is entitled Darwin's Creatures.  In it, you will see the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands that fascinated Charles Darwin over 150 years ago and led to his masterpiece, "The Origin of Species."  Here are blue- and red-footed boobies, lava gulls, fur seal pups and sea lions, albatrosses, giant tortoises, land and marine iguanas, and Sally Lightfoot crabs, all going about their daily lives in their unspoiled habitat.  Rosemary extends special thanks to Lorraine Chickering for taking her along on a fabulous voyage of discovery, seeing her safely over the volcanic rocks, and bringing the lens cleaner.