The visual language of photography and dimensionality of prose have become platforms for self-expression. Each provides an opportunity to reappoint and redefine who I am through storytelling.
Photography offers a vantage point to seize the small, unnoticed and unseen:
•How to exhibit the unusual in the ordinary;
•How to show another side of beauty;
•How to discover my individual voice.
My photographic palette includes the abstract, architecture, design, nature (my muse), everyday objects, and the play between dark and light. I’m drawn to the oeuvre of the early masters of photography that created black-and-white prints with aesthetic and technical precision.
Inspiration often comes from the juxtaposition of angles, contrast, lines, reflections, shadows, shapes, and texture. As a lifelong learner, travel inspires my inner spectator to observe and record, but I can as easily be awed by the appeal of an aged leaf or small paring knife.
My blog began as a vehicle to share narratives that are told through my lens and and pens. This online life has moved me deeper and deeper into photography by encouraging exploration of new inner and and outer vistas.
*Profile photo by Cole Bedford. View more images at Sally's blog Lens and Pens by Sally. Contents in this spread are copyright works of the featured photographer and were used with permission.
Sally W. Donatello
Photography and prose
have become platforms
for self-expression.