About the Authors
Ginny Felch, as a child of the '50s, was given a Brownie camera by her father. She was encouraged by his kind compliments about her sensitivity and composition. The beauty and nostalgia of New England as well as Ginny's mother's eclectic eye for beauty and her appreciation of art and design were gifts that contributed to her developing eye. Ginny was trained as a wedding photographer after years of studying black-and-white photography. Later, her love for children, spurred by devotion to her son, Zachary, led to an inspired career creating children's portraits.
Under the name of Virginia Clayton, she exhibited and lectured her way to becoming a Master of Photography through Professional Photographers of America and has been coached by some great photographers, including Marie Cosindas, Morley Baer, Ruth Bernhard, Robert Farber, Sara Moon, and Josef Karsh. Ginny has had speaking engagements across the country and in Europe. In 1990, she visited the Soviet Union while documenting the Heart to Heart Children's Medical Alliance as part of a group of volunteer doctors and nurses from Oakland Children's Hospital.
Shortly after returning home from working with parents facing the possibility of losing their children, Ginny endured the tragedy of losing her own 15-year-old son in an automobile accident. Soon thereafter, her home and all belongings were destroyed in the Oakland ...
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