OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS
ABOUT SHERRY
I've loved art for as long as I can remember. Long before I picked up my first DSLR camera, the nuns who me instructed me in elementary and high school taught me perspective and composition, as well as art history, drawing, and art appreciation that was injected into virtually every subject. I fell in love with light: I carried a Canon point and shoot to Egypt in 2009 and with that simple camera was able to capture some remarkable shots. Later, the Old Masters' use of light led me to portraiture: I particularly enjoy using natural light, especially while photographing seniors.
I had a long career in business management as an analyst. Thanks to Craig's insistence that I get a comprehensive education in photography I completed the New York Institute of Photography's Professional Photography course in 2018, a course adjudicated by photography professionals working in New York City. I came out of that course a solid photographic artist. I like to combine elements to tell a story and elicit emotion. During COVID, I published a weekly blog through our website for the entertainment of my housebound senior friends.
With Craig’s as a partner, every day is about the joy of creating. We not only create and market our own art but teach photography at the Kingston Senior Centre.
ABOUT CRAIG
I started with a Brownie. Then a Polaroid Land. Eventually moved up to a blunderbuss F-5 film camera and have now stumbled into megapixel Nirvana. What a ride!
I have been shooting literally since childhood. My first professional work came through my job as a radio reporter and journalist sixty years ago. I would be on my way to the latest news event and the newspaper reporters would toss me a camera, asking me to take a few photos. I got good with that 35mm! But I didn’t get credit for my work.
Later I broadened my skills through the New York Institute of Photography. You can call me a general photographer: I have shot news, events, sports, portraits, landscapes – you name it. I even lay in the road in Los Angeles to photograph an advancing parade. The bands just marched around me but oh, the horses! My current favourite type of photography is birds in flight, a complex operation that requires a delicate touch. We have lived along several flyways just for the experience. Fortunately for us Kingston sits at the convergence of the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways.
We are both members of Nikon Professional Services. Check out our art at Edwardsphotographyportland.com.