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The three picture sets immediately below include a small sample of the many Access East employee photos I’ve taken.

I take pictures of all new Access East employees, for use in various projects (posting where appropriate on the company website, for various program brochures, for the company’s internal newsletter, etc.). During the pandemic, when most Access East staff had begun working remotely, I often would travel to employee homes to safely take these photos outside. For the very first picture in this set, I drove more than 100 miles to set up my “studio” (a white backdrop set atop a metal easel, plus two card-table chairs) at the top of the employee’s driveway to get her picture.

Below are samples from my assisting Access East education staff with the graphics content for a series of instruction sets for the Vidant Health (now ECU Health) rehab department. I toned each photo for potential use either in color, or as black-and-white images.

About half of the photos for this project were to have standing backgrounds; I digitally removed the backgrounds from the others. The first entry immediately below shows something of my process for working with each photo in which the background would later be removed.
This set of final photos is essentially a contact sheet for the rehab director to check patient positioning.
I took the Access East homepage background image during photo trips to the Outer Banks for social media postings while working in public relations for a local hammock/outdoor furniture company.