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Wooden birdhouse in a field at Rockefeller State Park, Pleasantville, NY.

I created this artwork by hand painting with a stylus and pen tablet as well as using other digital tools in Adobe Photoshop, simplifying my original photograph to highlight the charming birdhouse in its bucolic surroundings. Using a stylus, I can layer my paint strokes just as I can when using actual watercolors. The image combines the original photograph as well as digital art, both hand painting and computer generated techniques, hence it is considered digital mixed media, an approach that allows me to use 21st century technology to create traditional artwork.

I have been hooked on photography since age six when my grandmother, returning from a trip to Egypt, passed on her well-traveled Kodak Brownie camera as well as her wanderlust. A travel, editorial and fine art photographer by profession, my images seek to shine a light on the reality around me and to evoke an emotional response. My work has been shown in galleries throughout the New York metropolitan area, including at the Museum of the City of New York and hang in the collections of private, institutional and corporate collectors. They have been published in Smithsonian and Coastal Living magazines, in The Guardian newspaper, in books published by National Geographic, Fodors, DK and Workman Publishing and in dozens of other...