Pat Field Pat Field has been doing photography since receiving her first Kodak Brownie camera in 5th grade. Graduating to an old Kodak Bantam (828 film) during high school, she learned to develop film and enlarge pictures in her father's darkroom. It was advantageous that her father's sister worked for Kodak and supplied him with (perfectly good!) outdated film and paper. In the days before instant Polaroid photography, her father would take pictures of visiting relatives, retreat to his darkroom for a few hours, and emerge with finished photos, much to the amazement and delight of the visitors. Pat has a bachelor's in chemistry from Bucknell University, where she also took one course in the art department-Basic Design. Marrying after college, she lived in Baltimore for 20 years and studied oil painting and pastel with several artists who were graduates of Maryland Institute of Art. During that time, she also set up her own basement darkroom and went paid "professional," taking pictures of friends' and neighbors' families and printing them up as deckle-edge Christmas cards, as well as capturing studio images of their children for framing. Her firstborn was the subject of many images, as she followed him around with her Yashica-D twin-lens reflex and Canon 35mm cameras. Eventually, she began to experiment with color photography and built a full-color darkroom before deciding that it was too time-consuming for a mother with three young children. It had been possible to entertain the youngsters with watching the pictures develop in the red glow of a safelight, but total darkness did not yield much interest for them! In 2000 (a couple of SLRs and some long lenses later), she entered digital photography with a 2.1MP Fuji FinePix 2400. This allowed her to indulge her photographic interests while processing images in full color "above-ground" and in full daylight on the computer. Her latest (and 4th) digital camera is a Panasonic ZS3, which she carries with her at all times. Pat strives to compose her pictures as she shoots, taking multiple images to insure that one or more will be in focus. Her main subjects are nature (flowers, mushrooms, bugs, rocks, interesting textures, skyscapes and landscapes) and candid shots of people interacting with each other or just "doing their thing." She has sold some prints of her nature images. Over the last nine years, she has been systematically recording her front hall window as the display--usually flowering plants--changes and pleases her. She is greatly seduced by color, but has more recently re-engaged monochrome in an exploration of design using value alone. She feels that a photograph that is not good as a monochrome will usually not be as exciting in color, either. Pat has experimented with "Photo-Shopping" and has created an extensive series of kaleidoscopic images. She has sold some of her "electronic collages", and is playfully experimenting with making fantasy creatures from her images.