Prints with Willa Friedman 
I discovered photography right after college when I was an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I was given a choice of several summer projects including cleaning small animal cages, filing old forms or sorting owl pellets. One choice was photographing wildlife in city parks. I chose the photography because my husband, Bob, knew about such things. I was handed an SLR camera and light meter. Over the following weekend, Bob taught me enough that the result was published!
For about forty years I did nothing photographic—I raised children and worked in management and sales.
As I approached retirement, I drifted back into photography and have taken several workshops, including one with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant in Canada and have studied Photoshop with Eliot Cohen. I have, most recently, taken courses at Photoworks with Karen Keating and John Borstel. I shoot digitally with Nikon equipment and do my own printing on an Epson Pigment Photographic printer.
Digital with Beth Morris, Topic South West USA
Beth is a professional photographer specializing in both travel and nature photography, however, she believes that a great image can be taken anywhere and always strives to give a unique perspective to what she sees.
She has been interested in photography since her grandmother gave her her first Kodak Instamatic camera in 1982. She knew back at the age of 12 that photography was going to be more than just a hobby, when she was laying in the middle of the street in New York City, taking a shot of the World Trade Center straight up and wouldn’t get up until she had the image she wanted, much to the dismay of her family.
In 2008 she, along with her partner Rob Skerman, founded Morris Skerman Photography. While they offer workshops to multiple locations, their primary loves are the southwest coast of England, and the southwest United States and they have created a successful formula for workshops that combine history, creativity, fun, and technical support with the goal for every photographer to be inspired by their experiences with them.
In addition to the workshops, her images can be found on postcards that sell along the south coast of England, as well as on several stock imaging sites. She speaks at numerous camera clubs each year and she has also recently been contracted to do marketing work for a pub company in England.
Beth is a member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS) and the Weymouth Camera Club (WCC) in Weymouth, England.