Making movies is a way to indulge in two related passions in my life--satisfying an insatiable curiosity about the world and the people in it and telling those stories in pictures. My career has been a delightful balancing act between shooting documentaries and marketing films. What I learn from each can apply to the other. My journey began at the Public Television Station in Lincoln, Nebraska where I was awarded a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Women-in-Training Grant to shoot and edit film and became a part of the Film Unit for two years. Then I traveled through the South Pacific and New Zealand for a year and came back to join the Film Unit at WHA Public TV in Madison, Wisconsin After five years, I decided to make my move to San Francisco. My final project at WHA was a documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright-Uncommon Places-that I co-directed, shot and edited. After landing in the Bay Area I chose to freelance as a Director of Photography and have been lucky to have had an eclectic mix of work that is creative and rewarding—including a low-budget horror film, many films for Apple's K-12 group, PSA's, fundraising and marketing videos-many for high tech and biotech companies, documentaries and art films. I have always compared my work to being an anthropologist with a short attention span—traveling all over the world to be a part of interesting and exciting projects. It still enriches me in many ways and the new technology that has exploded onto the scene is just one more challenging and exciting part of the future. ]]>