I am a professional composer, retired professor of music, and amateur photographer, having only recently begun to enter photo competitions. Together with my husband, an orchestral conductor, I now travel the world, drawing inspiration from both natural and urban environments.

The similarities between music and photography become ever more apparent to me as I gain experience using my eyes as if they were my ears – seeing textures, lines, and shapes as intently as I hear them. I have discovered that visual patterns have rhythm too, that a landscape can be as contrapuntal as a Bach fugue, and that cameras and lenses can be "played" as artfully as musical instruments.

There are technological parallels as well. For example, a macro lens can be considered analogous to a microphone, each providing opportunities to see or hear beyond the realm of normal experience to a magical place of abstraction and wonder.