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PAMELA BREITBERG, NBCT ‘S TEACHING CURRICULUM VITAE is available at this link.

PAMELA’S PHOTOGRAPHIC STYLE: Pamela’s method of capturing nature and wildlife is through photographic portraiture. She believes people can sense the personality of each plant best when its image is captured as it appears naturally. She uses only natural light, with no use of reflectors, tents, filters or strobe lights. She wants a more “casual, natural” look than any of these tools would render. She feels the use of a tripod for these portraits limits her ease in selecting views for best portrai­ture. Pamela sometimes isolates the subject to allow the viewer to easily study the details of the subject. Other portraits include the environment of the subject to tell the viewer a more complete story about the subject.

TODAY: Pamela has begun a series of portraits of native plants found on the few remaining undisturbed Midwest prairies. She also has an ongoing project creating photographic portraits of Midwest woodland plants and wildlife. Her home is adjacent to a section of the Cook County Forest Preserve; she spends many hours each year photographing and bicycling the preserves. She teaches photography to middle school students and lectures to various garden clubs and service organizations.

*”A NEW BEGINNING”: Pamela’s “A New Beginning” exhibition of 38 cibachrome prints, was the result from a two year project with the Chicago Botanic Gardens, in Glencoe, Illinois. All photo­graphs were made at the Chicago Botanic Gardens’ prairie restora­tion area in Glencoe, Illinois. The Gardens restored seven prairie environments common to Northeastern Illinois. The pho­tography project lasted two years so that she could capture the personality of the Midwest prairie during each seasonal stage. Her main emphasis was in creating portraits of native Midwestern prairie plants; including insects and wildlife found in the prairie. The majority of the plants documented was from the mesic prairie, but also include marsh, savannah and fen prairie plants. She worked closely with their naturalist, David Sallenberg. 38 limit­ed-edition cibachrome prints were made for the “A New Beginning” Exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

The collection of over 1200 transparencies from this assign­ment contains portraits of over 50 specific prairie plants. All images are of native plant life, without the many varieties of Eurasian plants found today in prairies and previously disturbed land.

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