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<span class="text"><font color="#666666" class="text"> <div style="text-align: right; margin-left: 40px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <p style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="/users/carmentroesser3144/Image/0G4J9861.jpg" style="width: 235px; height: 363px;" /><br /> <img alt="" src="file:///Users/carmentroesser/Desktop/ctroesser1.jpg" /><br /> <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">It's usually not just the sight of something that makes me want to photograph it.<br /> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">It's everything that goes along with it: the way it smells or tastes, the weight of it, the way the wind moves it. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">My curiosity about objects and experiences becomes a compulsion.</span><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Taking pictures is my attempt to satisfy this compulsion. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">A professor once told me that to photograph something well, you must either love it or hate it...have feelings for it one way or the other. </span><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">I think this is true. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">When I study something hard enough or look long enough, I develop a need to understand it, and a desire to communicate it. <br /> <br /> </span><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">I have a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art and a Master's in Photojournalism from the University of Missouri. </span></p> </div> <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">I live in St. Louis, Mo., </span><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">with my husband, two children, Grace the Dog and Betty the Cat.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <cite><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Photo by my 6-year-old daughter, Naomi Lan Derfel</span></cite></p> </div> </div> </font></span><br> <h1> </h1>
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