TITLE: THE MUSIC LESSON
ARTIST: SUSAN T. BLAKE

Susan Blake began taking pictures as a child with a box camera that was in her parent's linen closet. She took her first photography and darkroom class when she was in elementary school, and remembers that her first picture that attracted attention was of treetops laden with snow.

Susan progressed to taking art photographs of nature, cityscapes and people at street fairs, open markets and a variety of unusual locations. She continued her informal photographic education while working at a neighborhood camera store during her college years.

Two decades later, Susan has made the leap to the digital world and is gaining attention for her eye for composition, creative nature photography and photojournalist shots of everyday people in both common and uncommon situations.

She notes, "My photography focuses on textures and contrasts and on unexpected situations. My goal is to capture views that help people to notice the world around us, see that world differently, and remember to look up."