Storytelling is my passion. In words or pictures. To share the world I see, filtered through my personal sense of reality, truth or beauty (which are not necessarily the same vision).

This site is a work in progress. I'll be editing it and adding to it from time to time, when not swamped with book and article deadlines, consulting projects, preparing for exhibits, and giving workshops and seminars with my husband Daniel.

By the way, my newest photo project is "American Hands," my celebration of Americans who keep alive the traditional crafts that built our country's dynamically diverse culture. I'm creating photographic portraits and visual marratives of blacksmiths, a weaver, spinner, cobbler, violin-maker and so forth -- even folks who do "ordinary" work, such as milk cows or cut hay by hand. My focus is on those skills that were needed, rather than those that are practiced primarily for artistic expression. Several exhibits and lectures are scheduled, supported by various grants. The "American Hands" Website (www.AmHands.com) is currently up with an intro placeholder; I'll start to add photos onto it in early 2009. If you have suggestions of individuals I should consider photographing for this project, please contact me.

If you have any questions about photography, imaging, printing, scanning, color management and so forth, please send them to Daniel and me at PhotoGurus@DigitalBenchmarks.com. Then, tune into Daniel's and my Internet radio show, The Photo Gurus to hear our answers.

Please check out my previous portrait project at www.WordsmithsProject.com, for which I created interpretive portraits of the people who influence what we read... editors, publishers, literary agents, critics and others. Other Websites that follow my various activities, including lectures, consulting and books are: www.TheWellConnectedWoman.com, www.DigitalBenchmarks.com, and www.Grotta.net.

At present, most of the photographs on this site are in private galleries, to help me deliver various projects. Please click on the thumbnail pictures, below, to view slideshows of some of my work. (Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, the first two slides may take an extra second or two to load.) Thank you.