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JODY: My work life for years was in journalism and as a freelance writer. Then I discovered the pleasure of making mosaics in 2011, serving as an apprentice to Lorraine Meade in Richmond, Va. After working with her at Art Works, an RVA gallery/studio complex, I moved into my own studio across the hall, then to my newest space at 17th Street Studios in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond. My mosaic work coincided with a gradual retirement and has become my main expression of creativity.
TOM: Moving from law and the military into creative photography might seem a leap, but the seed was there all along. Even through college, law school at Dickinson School of Law (Carlisle, Pa.) and over 20 years of active and reserve duty as a U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force JAG officer, I saw not through the lens of career but one of light, shadow and color. In the law there are grays and shadows, but few instances of black and white. After retiring from the Defense Commissary Agency, I allowed myself to experiment more in photography, and I continue to enjoy seeing, learning and sharing the results.
Photo by Jay Paul.
JODY: My work life for years was in journalism and as a freelance writer. Then I discovered the pleasure of making mosaics in 2011, serving as an apprentice to Lorraine Meade in Richmond, Va. After working with her at Art Works, an RVA gallery/studio complex, I moved into my own studio across the hall, then to my newest space at 17th Street Studios in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond. My mosaic work coincided with a gradual retirement and has become my main expression of creativity.
TOM: Moving from law and the military into creative photography might seem a leap, but the seed was there all along. Even through college, law school at Dickinson School of Law (Carlisle, Pa.) and over 20 years of active and reserve duty as a U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force JAG officer, I saw not through the lens of career but one of light, shadow and color. In the law there are grays and shadows, but few instances of black and white. After retiring from the Defense Commissary Agency, I allowed myself to experiment more in photography, and I continue to enjoy seeing, learning and sharing the results.
Photo by Jay Paul.
