B.A. SPRAYBERRY
PHOTOGRAPHY

Creating images has always fascinated me. I've owned various cameras for more than fifty years. Everything from a 1970 Kodak Instamatic with a Magicube flash to my current Nikon DSLR. And I've gone from developing negatives and printing my own black and whites in my mom's laundry room (yes...I turned it into a darkroom at age 15) to editing digital images on a laptop.

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Photography is a way to show the ordinary, the everyday, in a different light or from a different perspective to evoke an emotional response. As an observer of a "finished" image - whether it's on-line, or hanging in a gallery or on your living room wall - you won't necessarily have the same emotional response to what you see as I did when I looked through the viewfinder or pulled it up on a monitor. For me, the satisfaction is in knowing that an image has struck a chord with you and that it made you feel ... something.

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I was a communications major who worked as a television reporter/anchor before going back to law school and practicing law as an environmental attorney. I'm now the chief talent officer for a large, business-focused law firm in Florida. In each of my professional roles, written and oral communication has been critical. But with a camera in hand, my goal is to communicate visually. Everyone has a different eye and a different viewpoint. But it's capturing the right mix of light and shadow that lies at the heart of every exceptional image. In my mind photography done right ... makes you look at the world differently.