Mary-Jo Bennet

Photography is my passion. In 2005, I retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency following 21 years of government service and now devote my time to travel and photography. I am particularly drawn to record images of country landscape and moved to the Panhandle area because of the bonanza of photographic opportunities.

With my photography, I hope to make an impact on the viewer and heightened awareness of the fragility and beauty of nature and our rapidly vanishing countryside and, ultimately, to preserve that beauty in my photographs.

I was educated in aspects of photography at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, attended a number of workshops by a few of the nation’s top professional photographers, and won a number of awards in local competitions over the years. I am a former member of the Vienna Photographic Society and a current member of the Potomac Valley Nature Photographers, the Arts and Humanities Alliance of Jefferson County, and Art Berkeley in West Virginia. I have displayed and sold my works in numerous art shows to include: Oatlands Plantation Annual Art Show in Leesburg, Virginia; Art at the Mill in Millwood, Virginia; Huntley Meadows Nature Art Show in Alexandria, Virginia; Meadowlark Gardens Nature Photography Show; the AHA Art Show in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and the Fire House Gallery in Charles Town, West Virginia.

My images are both from slide film and digital, with little or no digital enhancement. All are printed with archival inks on Kodak Professional inkjet paper.

Website: www.mjbennettphotography.com

Email: mojophoto (at) comcast.net

Telephone 304.754.5692

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