"Travel leads one “To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”
-Shakespeare"
Sharon Wylie
She has been involved in photography during her travels throughout the world for the last two decades. From deserts to mountains, from jungles to urban areas, she has visited seventy countries, all climes, all continents. These countries have given vision to her photographic work. It has been more than just getting on a plane and arriving somewhere distant. It is connecting with people and their cultures. How does one describe a favorite location? Is it Cuba with the friendly people and their smiles, or the verdant green countryside of the Palouse, or the provocative history of Serbia, the beauty of Iceland’s frozen earth, the greenery of the Olympic Peninsula, or Kenya’s unpredictable wildlife? It’s all of that and more.
She has been traveling and learning from some of the best photographers the country has to offer: Jay Maisel and Peter Turnley (street photography), John Shaw (landscapes), Adam Jones (wildlife), Joe McNally (portraiture), Kathleen Clemons (flowers), Nevada Jones (indigenous tribes) and Miami’s Maggie Steber (this year’s Guggenheim winner). On excursions from Greenland to Patagonia, from the Sahara to Bali they have all been inspiring instructors.
Sharon is a retired public school teacher and since has been pursuing her loves of not only photography, but quilting and writing. She belongs to the Ocean Waves Quilt Guild and South Florida Writers Association. She has contributed to two published anthologies, The Red Bikini and Beyond My Window, which contain stories of her travel and some fiction. The authorship is known as the Miami Sunshine Writers.
She has held several exhibitions in Miami, won awards from the Florida Camera Club Council, and been Photographer of the Year twice for Miami’s camera club, Kendall Camera Club. She won first place in the Miami Herald’s travel photography contest out of 3500 entries.