When Barbara Athanasiou was a high school teacher she had the opportunity to pick up a digital camera for one of her computer classes and from that point on it was love at first sight. Her first camera was a Sony Mavica that recorded its pictures on a floppy disc. She graduated to an Olympus zoom camera and used it until she began to covet her husband's digital SLR, a Nikon D70. The Nikon is now her main squeeze although she says she is still learning how to use it. (Guess what, Barbara, we're all still learning how to use our cameras...)

Barb carries her camera with her wherever she goes, birding, golfing, playing with her grand children, canoeing, shopping (she has a black belt in shopping), dining, to parties, dancing, hiking, and every other place allowed. She was once accosted in a shopping mall where she was taking pictures of store windows for a club contest (she took first place) and reminded that mall security was very concerned about the possibility of terrorists visiting the mall (to shop??) Her favorite subjects are nature and grandchildren but she’ll shoot anything that will hold still long enough for her to unsling her camera.

Barb sharpened her photo technique with on-line computer courses and uses Paint Shop Pro to manage and edit her pictures. She will occasionally deign to consider some advice from her husband if no other sources are available because she is so competitive.

Below are the pictures which earned her awards in the Enhanced division this year. Clicking on the thumb nail picture will bring up a larger version. Using your browser's back button will return you to this page.