Artist's Statement

I'm an explorer, someone who loves the challenge of world-wide travel and gathers stories of exploration and adventure. For me, travel photography is an essential part of the travel experience. With a camera in my hand, my journey is always enhanced and my senses always heightened, as my eyes and mind are alert for the artistic capture, the beauty of light and color and the special moment that perfectly reflects my experience and emotions.

Equal to the joy of capturing travel photography is the joy of sharing it. In the end, for me, travel photography is about story-telling, capturing the narrative of the journey in a way that moves, provokes and entertains. Photography and words combine to create a narrative of thoughts, observations, emotions, conversation, encounters and interaction to paint the beauty, complexity, humor and wonder of the world, its people and places. It is not only a story of travel, but also a chronicle of love and adventure with my husband John and son David. Behind every beautiful photograph is a "family snapshot" of our activities and experiences, sometimes in words and sometimes with pictures that are not "gallery worthy" but which complete the story-telling narrative.

The purpose of Traverslogue is to share the moments of world travel through travel photography, story-enhancing snapshots and tone-setting narrative. I hope you enjoy!