Mary Ann is both a past VP for Competitions and Past President of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS), and is a retired human resources manager who has been blessed with the opportunity for a second life as a photographer. She is a 1995 graduate of the Washington School of Photography and has augmented that training with many photography and Adobe Photoshop courses, including the famed Freeman Patterson’s Photography and Visual Design Workshop in 2007. Her experience also includes professional photography and videography work and until 2006, Mary Ann ran a portrait studio in her home.

Her images have won numerous awards in the Northern Virginia Photographic Society, ribbons from the Vienna Photography Shows where she won “Best In Show” in 2001, and several images have been juried into the Art League of Alexandria’s monthly exhibits at The Torpedo Factory, where she also won a prestigious Equal Award in 2002 and maintained a bin for two years. She was named NVPS “Photographer of the Year” in both 2005 and 2006 in the category of Enhanced Prints and won two “Print of the Year” Awards in 2000 and two again in the 2005. She has presented programs on “Digital Magic” which explore the roots of her Photoshop learning and the creative processes employed. She has had photographs published in the élan Magazine and two articles were written about her and her work in that same publication in 2003 and 2005. She was the featured photographer on the cable TV program “Photographers of Northern Virginia” in 2002 and also substituted for the regular host on occasion during subsequent years. She has experience as a judge and critique leader and in December, 2006, she completed Joe Miller’s Seminar on Judging.

Mary Ann and her husband, Dick, recently moved to the northern Shenandoah Valley area where she has organized a Photography Club in her new active adult community and is looking forward to many self assignments by exploring the beautiful countryside and inspirational views that are in abundance there.

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