"Hosta #6" ~ Photograph
"Lemon on Glass" ~ Photograph
"Cloud" ~ Photograph
Gayle Zydron is a native of Norfolk, Virginia. Receiving an M.S. in Home Economics from Virginia Tech in 1980, she also holds additional studies from Eastern Michigan University, Old Dominion University, Hampton University, and the University of Virginia. Gayle retired from a Faculty position at Virginia Tech as well as the Virginia Cooperative Extension Agency. We are excited to have been touched by Gayle's vision through her camera lens. This is a very special woman who is battling Ovarian Cancer, but she strives for life through her children, her camera, and her strong belief in miracles. Her photographs are unlike anyone's we have seen, capturing the pure essence and simplicity of nature in it's most common forms.
Artist statement
"For
years, I was the de facto family photographer. Eventually that love
for photography
in
general
developed
into a
more particular love for still life photography. Over the years
I have chosen a number of arrangements and subject ranging from green
peppers, cantaloupe, and papaya, to rag dolls or the American
flag.
Ultimately my primary passion is for the fruits and flowers."
"I love playing with the natural sunlight as it streams through my window and reflects off the petals or heats up the green leaves of the hostas. I look for ways the sunlight creates shadows, punches up the colors, or reveals hidden textures and I try to catch it. I love the freshness of the camera's reach looking into the throat of a mature tulip revealing its beauty even on it's last day."
"I use Canon digital and 35mm cameras, a Minolta X-700 and Nikon D70 for my work. I use only natural light, no artificial lighting or reflection screens, no special lenses or filters. My photographs are all developed directly from film or file without cropping or any other manipulations. It's just a party of four: me, the flowers, the camera, and God's sunlight."
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