Please join the Arundel Camera Club at 7pm on January 16th in person at the Severna Park Baptist Church or on FaceBook Live for a program by our very own Jackie Colestock on “Geometric Shapes”. Gain an understanding of geometry and how to see it outside of the lens, and then how to use it behind the lens.  Explore the use of lines, shape, and pattern to create interesting compositions, balance, and symmetry into your image.

Biography

  • I consider myself first and foremost a Designer. I have been formally trained in sketching and painting.  I am an accomplished Fabric Artist and Professional Costumer.  I spent thirty years analyzing and designing outdoor spaces as a Registered Landscape Architect.  I have a comfortable familiarity with composition, light, color, texture, shape and pattern.

 

  • Arundel Camera Club
    • Member since fall of 2008 after a chance meeting with Howard Penn at the Brookside Gardens Butterfly Exhibit.
    • First position: unofficial Parliamentarian at one of my first business meetings, a position I still hold.
    • Competition Committee Co-chair 2014-16
    • Secretary-Treasurer since 2016

 

  • Artistic Background
    • Started with fiber and needle arts: learning to knit, embroidery, crewelwork, and garment sewing at the age of 6.
    • By high school I was regularly sketching and painting. I was one of 300 to attend the 1978 Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts with a specialty in Fiber Arts and Sketching.
    • Attended Pennsylvania State University, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture. This led to over 30 years of reading land and designing outdoor spaces to meet the needs of my clients.
    • Costumed several Actor’s Equity level theater productions for the Bay View Theater in Annapolis (Season 2012).

 

  • Photography Background
    • First camera was a Christmas present of a Kodak Point n’ Shoot. I was 8, and recorded my family and my adventures.  The few attempts at artistic shoots were few and far between.
    • Next camera was college. I bought a used 35mm Compact Konica from a good friend, Doug Wood.  This camera ignited my real interest in art photography.
    • I currently shoot a Canon EOS 7D

 

  • Photographic Outlook
    • Enjoy shooting Macro, Abstract, and graphically oriented images.
    • Currently exploring the graphic expression of Mono print.
    • Do not have a website.

 

  • Other Information
    • Practitioner of the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi for over 30 years.
    • Anne Arundel Community College Adjunct Professor of Function Mobility and Balance II (Tai Chi) for 25 years.
    • Medal winning athlete several years: International Chinese Martial Arts Championships
    • One of the Founding Owners: Wulin Institute, Inc. of Glen Burnie