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| Born, raised and still residing in Chester, NJ, Joan S. Case has been capturing the beauty of nature on film for over 37 years. She is a self-taught nature and landscape photographer and has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada to add to her collection of photographs. Throughout her career as a fine art photographer, Joan has been privileged to study under such photographers as Art Wolfe, John Shaw, Dewitt Jones, Freeman Patterson, Perry Conway and Pat O'Hara.
Her images have been shown in many galleries and are in corporate and private collections in the United States, England, Japan and Germany. Many of her photographs have won numerous awards such as Sierra Magazine's International competition where her image titled "Peace Lily" captured a second place and appeared in that magazine. Her work has also been published in other magazines such as Outdoor Photographer, Outdoor Traveler, NJ Conservation, Savvy, NJ Magazine, Black River Journal and in school text books. Many of the North Jersey newspapers have also used her photographs.
Joan's love and respect of nature and wildlife truly shows in her art, and one of the most important aspects to her photography is to be able to capture that little something extra in her photographs and then be able to share that with others. It may be a pleasing blend of colors, just the right lighting conditions or a bird or animal reacting in its natural environment. The Black River, which runs through her hometown of Chester, is where many of her most loved photographs have been taken.
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PERSONAL STATEMENT
"My goal is to capture the scene on film to the closest, true representation of what I actually experienced so that I might be able to share that beauty with others. God has blessed us with so much color and beauty in the world around us and I believe that we should all take the time to stop, look and appreciate it. With everyone having such busy lives, I feel this is one way to "freeze" this beauty so that others may also enjoy God's gifts to us all through the wonders of His natural world.
There's a wonderful, spiritual feeling of being up before dawn and traveling to an area that you think might make a great photograph, and then quietly sitting, waiting for the sun to rise to greet a new day and listening to the morning sounds. Then to actually have that wonderful early morning light fall on your subject with all the long shadows is one of the most awesome feelings that you could ever have!"
"To God Be The Glory!"
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