Ann Walton

Since I was ten years old, Black and White photography has been a passion in my life. I began shooting with black and white film, and have always marveled at how back and white images have a timelessness to them. When I was raising my four children, I started a business that focuses on taking black and white portraits of children in natural lighting. I had a darkroom in my home, and I thoroughly enjoyed created timeless images of children.

Now, years later, I use several digital camera and the program, Light Room, to create many genres of black and white photography. I have shared my images in many juried exhibitions ;and I have received awards in Shades of Grey, the New Mexico Stare Fair, New Mexico Magazine Photo Awards, and the Enchanted Lens Photo Club.

I am married to a very supportive husband, and have a combined family of 7 children and 9 grandchildren. My husband and I live in the Cayman Island for 6 weeks every Spring, and I am the only water yoga teacher in New Mexico.

I am really looking forward to viewing all of your images. Namaste, Ann Walton

Frank Dobrushken

Frank has been involved with photography since the mid 1980’s when he made many worldwide backpacking trips lasting several months. He has thousands of slides from that era. Frank lived in the Seattle area for 40 years before moving to New Mexico in 2013. Frank worked as a union electrician and retired in 2008. He then took up photography as a primary avocation and joined the digital world. He has won many awards in local shows in Seattle and Albuquerque. His work has been shown at several venues including galleries, city halls, and churches. Frank is currently a member of the Enchanted Lens Camera Club in Albuquerque.

Frank’s work can be seen on his website.

http://dobrushken.smugmug.com/

Amy Howard

Amy M Howard is a severe weather photographer and storm chaser based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Growing up on Long Island, New York and experiencing Hurricanes Gloria, Bob, and Andrew as well as recurrent nightmares featuring lightning at a young age shaped her fascination with weather. After attending the University at Buffalo for several years for Fine Arts instruction, Amy relocated to the endless skies of the southwest where a keen interest in photography was born when she became a wife and mother. Monsoon lightning photography became a hobby in 2010 as she channeled the adrenaline caused by fear into an addiction that now fuels her as she pursues supercells across the Plains region of the US each severe weather season, with much gratitude to her family and friends for their support in these endeavors. Amy’s passion for capturing scenes authentic to her experiences in an artful way has helped her succeed in several art shows and storm photo competitions, winning the top spot for Storm Photographer Of The Year in 2022: https://www.stormphotocontest.com/2021-storm-photo-contest-winners-announced/ . Along with Shades of Gray, Amy is currently judging for the American Meteorological Society’s Weather Band photo contest https://amsweatherband.org/index.cfm/weatherband/weather-band-photo-contest/ . Grateful for a flexible work life in the real estate photography sector, Amy also enjoys photo expeditions to capture traditional and intimate landscape, abstract scenes, and occasional infrared and astrophotographic images throughout New Mexico and surrounding states. Her work can currently be seen in person at the Gila Gallery in Silver City, New Mexico and online at https://enchantedwx.darkroom.com/.