Please join the Seabrook Island Photo Club for a reception
to meet Gina and view her photography.
Monday, October 6, 2025
4:30-6:00 pm
The Lake House Photo Club Wall
In the words of the photographer:
I’ve enjoyed taking photos all my life. My fascination began with my dad’s Polaroid camera and continued with my own Kodak 110 camera and later, a Kodak Disc camera. My first “real” camera was a Minolta X-700, which I used mostly in automatic mode.
After college I moved to Sydney, Australia, where I lived for seven years, and it was there, with all its beauty, scenic views and amazing parrots flying wild, that I fell in love with photography all over again. I took a few classes, learned to develop my own film, and worked to improve my skills. As often happens in your 20s, however, growing my career took priority and photography got pushed to the backburner.
Meanwhile, cell phones with built-in cameras became the norm, and I didn’t pick up another camera until we purchased our property on Seabrook Island in 2021. In fact, I went straight from film cameras to mirrorless cameras – I completely skipped over the DSLR era!
It was the birds on Seabrook that caught my attention, and I signed up for one of our golf course birding events. Because I was brand new to birding, I had no idea how to identify any of the birds I was seeing. They don’t sit still for very long! My solution was to buy a camera with a telephoto lens so I could get close-ups of the birds in order to study and learn their field marks. As my husband would say, I jumped in the deep end and became obsessed with birds and photography simultaneously.
But this time I did it differently. I enrolled in a full-scale photography course at New York Institute of Photography and studied all the basic skills – from the exposure triangle, lighting, various genres, to the business side of photography.
Nowadays I can be found taking photos of birds for Seabrook Island Birders’ social media, blogs, and Seabrooker articles, as well as experimenting with new photography techniques.
I’d like to thank the members of Seabrook Island Photo Club for sharing their skills and especially for their patience in answering all my questions in those early days. You know who you are!With retirement on the near horizon, I hope to spend many days on the island, capturing as much of its beauty as I can.
Gina’s photography will be shown beginning on September 19, 2025 at the Photo Club Gallery Wall (located in the lobby area at the Lake House). There will be an artist reception, which is open to all Seabrookers, on Monday, October 6 from 4:30-6:00 pm.
-Submitted by the Seabrook Island Photography Club