"Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made."
-Sam Abell
-Nancy L. Barrett
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 Grasshopper's... Discuss |  Translucence Discuss |  Downy Woodpecker Discuss |  Crocus Discuss | ||
 Crab Spider Await... Discuss |  Cooper's Hawk Discuss |  Cheeky Chickadee Discuss |  Bee on Gaillardia Discuss | ||
 Beachstone Medley Discuss |  Canada Lily Discuss |  Cosmos Discuss |  Queen of the Crab... Discuss | ||
 Bloodroot Discuss |  Still Life with B... Discuss |  Curves Ahead Discuss |  Grasshopper Couch... Discuss | ||
 Fallen Blossom Discuss |  Look Way Up Discuss |  Untitled Discuss |  Bufflehead Discuss | ||
 Hydrangea Drops Discuss |  Autumn Fern Discuss |  Indigo Dreams Discuss |  Mute Swan Discuss | ||
 Red Squirrel Discuss |  Peacock Display Discuss |  Seaweed at Blue R... Discuss |  Folded Rock Discuss | ||
 Caught Between... Discuss |  Blue Rocks Shorel... Discuss |  Still Life: Beac... Discuss |  The Big Yawn Discuss | ||
 Skipper on Milkwe... Discuss |  Wood Duck Display Discuss |  Wood Duck Reflect... Discuss |  Trio Discuss | ||
 Barrel Cactus Discuss |  Alley Oop! Discuss |  Wild Columbine Discuss |  Black-crowned Nig... Discuss | ||
 Caught Up Discuss |  Bee on Cosmos Discuss |  Graveyard on the ... Discuss |  St. Mary's Ba... Discuss | ||
 The Lunenburg Aca... Discuss |  Seaweed Detail Discuss |  Lobsterman's ... Discuss |  Beachstone Medley Discuss | ||
 Barrens Grass Discuss |  Patchwork Discuss |  The Light and the... Discuss |  Lunenburg "Bu... Discuss | ||
 Mussels for Sale Discuss |  Blue Rocks Cabin Discuss |  Red Cliffs of Blo... Discuss |  Three Boats Discuss | ||
 Buoy Discuss |  Three Churches Discuss |  "To the Sea a... Discuss |  The Picton Castle Discuss | ||
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 Lobster Traps, Ne... Discuss |  Lobster Traps, Ol... Discuss |  High Tide, Hall&#... Discuss |  The Donna Lee Discuss | ||
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Nancy is a self-taught amateur wildlife and nature photographer. Her love of exploration and new experience has taken her sloshing through the Florida Everglades, climbing the Mayan temples of Belize and Guatemala, horse-trekking through the Canadian Rockies, meandering along the one-lane country roads of England, and going for game drives on a photographic safari through Kenya.
Before going digital, Nancy used macro to telephoto lenses on good ol' manual Nikon FE and FA camera bodies. Her first foray into the digital world was with a Nikon Coolpix 3100; she has since upgraded to the entry-level DSLR Nikon D40x with an AF-S 18-135 lens, AF-S VR 70-300 telephoto and the AF-S VR 105 Micro-Nikkor. She also carries a Coolpix P5000 for those quick, candid shots.
A favourite technique is reducing the varied forms found in nature down to shape, texture, and colour until they suggest but don't telegraph their true identity. An affinity for the wonders of the natural world, along with a healthy respect for our environment, has stayed with Nancy since she was young, and she has endeavoured to express that passion through her images.
While still working in the health care field and indulging in her love for photography, Nancy also moonlights as a hand percussionist and vocalist in a worldbeat band, based in Toronto, Canada, and helmed by a Juno award-winning Kenyan-born musician (www.adamsolomon.ca).
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
-Dorothea Lange
Copyright for these photos belongs to Nancy L. Barrett
Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.