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parryphoto.com
Growing up, I was the family photographer. I still remember the first photo I took----it was of my best friend standing in my front yard in Nitro, WVa. We were in the fourth grade.
It was college before I took my first formal photography class and I have been "developing" as a photographer every since. While majoring in journalism and psychology at Marshall University in West Virginia, photography soon became part of my everyday life. I later earned a Masters in Counseling and spent a short time in California before making a life-altering decision to join the United States Air Force. Although my original intent was to serve for only four years to fund a doctorate in psychology, it ended up being a 21-year adventure.
As an Aircraft Maintenance Officer, I found myself serving at interesting locations around the United States and the world to include Delaware, Pennsylvania, California, New Mexico, Iceland and Washington DC. This incredible exposure to far flung locations fueled my passion for photography. Throughout this time I continued my pursuit of photography through practice, education and competition.
I have never stopped learning, taking classes in New Mexico, California, and locally with the Smithsonian and The Art League. Recently I completed an Associate of Fine Arts degree, in photography at the Corcoran School of Art and Design.
Upon my retirement from the Air Force in 1999, my husband and I chose to stay in the Washington DC area and, after a few stints in the world of ‘work’ I stumbled into an opportunity to pursue my passion professionally! I am now an official Air Force photographer assigned to the US Air Force Headquarters at the Pentagon.
From this vantage I am privileged to photograph everything from Senior Air Force officials, visiting dignitaries and important ceremonies for Air Force members of all ranks. My professional responsibilities afford me the opportunity to photograph key people and events at Department of Defense locations around the world. Personally, I have been privileged to be involved with a number of photographic pursuits to include photographing the George Washington’s Women’s Crew team, the local WNBA team, the Washington Mystics, Tony Bennett, Denyce Graves and Jane Seymore. In my spare time I travel the world even more and have now photographed on all seven continents.
I have been blessed with a bounty of opportunities for incredible photographic adventures that I hope to share these with you through my website.
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