Mary
Alice MurphyTraditionally trained with film cameras and darkrooms with enlargers and chemicals, Mary Alice, a long-time Canon equipment user, has switched to a Canon digital camera and computer darkroom within the past few years.
Although she had taken snapshots with small cameras for many years, the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel up the Mahakam River on the island of Borneo in Indonesia gave her the impetus to begin using single-lens reflex cameras. She never looked back.
After taking a few courses in darkroom work, she was totally hooked. Winning several awards in the first competition she entered encouraged her. Since then, her photography has won awards and been purchased by collectors in Indonesia, Turkey, Denmark, and the United States. Her photos are also often published in the Silver City Daily Press and have been printed in Silver City Life, New Mexico Traveler, and the Glenwood Gazette.
She has also taught photography classes.
Most of her originals are taken in color, but with digital tools available, quite a few end up as black-and-white renditions of the color image.
Never content to rest on her current portfolio, Mary Alice seeks out the abstract image in nature, as well as the close-up. Landscapes also draw her eye. Adobe buildings often show up in her photographs. Candid shots are the human target of her shutter finger.
To see more of her photographs, visit JW Art Gallery in Hurley or,
go to her website: maryalicemurphy.com