When I was a little girl, my father took some pictures of my brother and sister and I. After developing the film, he turned the lights out in the kitchen and put a red bulb over the kitchen sink. There were trays of chemicals in the sink and for the first time I saw the magic of the pictures appearing on the white photo paper. I will never forget the excitement I felt as I saw that magic happen. I still have the pictures. That was many years ago, but I still get that same thrill when I develop my own photos. While much of my work is now done with a digital camera and printers, darkroom work has been the foundation of much that I have learned. I now have the privilege of teaching photography to high school students at Skyview High School in Nampa, Idaho. My real interest in learning more about photography began when my husband and I went overseas to teach in the American International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1989. We spent our first Christmas vacation in Australia and New Zealand. My little "plastic" 35mm camera just wasn't going to cut it if I was going to get to travel around the world. The next summer I bought my first Nikon camera. While it was a great point-and-shoot camera on auto, I had no idea how to use it on manual. Living overseas, there was no opportunity to take classes, so I decided to take the New York Institute of Photography's Professional correspondence course. Over the next three years I completed the assignments and taught students at the school what I was learning. We did the photography for the school yearbook and photographed many areas of Bangladesh. It was a great way to learn. When a spider bite made me ill enough to have to return to the States, I began a small photography business out of my home using the skills I had learned in the course. I bought a medium format camera and took weddings, portraits, and lots of landscape photos of the beautiful scenery of southern Utah. It took me three years to become well enough to be able to teach again. Then we moved to Nampa, where I taught music for one year and then was given the opportunity to teach photography. Over the last four years we have built a three-year Commercial Photography program at the school. We have four sons, and have had 6 foster daughters. We have thirteen grandchildren and eleven foster grandchildren. I enjoy photographing people, especially my family, landscapes, flowers, weddings and sports. I hope you will enjoy looking through my photos. For Information email Sue Lindsay