My love of photography began at a young age with my best friend’s Polaroid camera—an Instamatic that took photos that developed magically in seconds right before your eyes. I used that camera as often as I could. If ownership had been based on usage, it would have been mine. From that point on I was obsessed with the idea of preserving moments and experiences.
Before long I got a similar camera, the first of several cameras I would own. A dozen years later, I got my first proper camera, a Ricoh SLR, and my love for photography took off. When the world moved from film to digital, I did too, initially getting a DSLR (Fuji) and then several mirrorless cameras - Fuji and Olympus. This year, 2024, I made a dream come true when I added a medium format camera, the Fuji GFX 100S II, to my kit.
Photography is one of two hobbies (cycling is the other) I have practiced and remained passionate about for most of my life. These days, I spend more time with my camera than my bike. To quote the legendary Ansel Adams, I love distilling moments of life into images by making photographs.
I am passionate about photography as an art form and a means to interpret and express what is seen, experienced, and felt. Where words fail, pictures do not. With the camera and software, the sky is the limit for capturing and creating images.
I hope you enjoy this sampling of my work and that some of my photos speak to you. If you want to find out about purchasing prints or using any of my images, please reach out. I am opening a gallery in Murray Hill Galleries, located at 2026 Murray Hill Road, Cleveland, Ohio, in the historic Little Italy neighborhood! If you are local, please come by and say hi! I will have a variety of photographs available, framed and not, in several sizes - and if you don’t find the size you want, no worries, most can be printed large, or if you desire smaller, that is always doable. Hope to see you soon!
Susan
@susanlashphoto || Cleveland OH
When the creative process is firing it is pure flow.
My best photos are a reflection of that.
The sense of place, and visceral experience too, are transmuted into a photograph.
Magic, in other words, using camera + software.
Photography is a creative as well as emotional experience for me.
I shoot with my heart and eyes.