My Sanctuary as Muse

As an nature girl, environmentalist, and photographer I'm happy to announce that I have just been appointed by the mayor of my town to its Environmental Commission and will be in charge of protecting its open spaces. For the past year I was on the town's Shade Tree Commission but now I will be able to more closely protect my sanctuary and muse: the town's arboretum and wildlife sanctuary. There is not much open space left in the suburbs of NJ but I'm fortunate to live within 2 blocks of this one and have done some of my best work with dogs in there including the images below and my "Dogs at Play" series as well as some of my commissioned documentary dog and family portraiture.