©2009 Susan Reynolds

I have had a passion for photography all my life it seems. I remember spending hours poring over the huge collection of National Geographic that my dad had. I think that is how I was drawn into the world of photography.
I began as a teen, taking photos myself with a little 110 film camera, but I became even more interested in photography after my two precious children were born.
My family is my first love and I treasure every picture of them…We recently lost our son William (he had just turned 19 years old) in a very tragic car accident. He was lost for four days while we frantically searched for him with hundreds of family, friends, and help from the police department, detectives and helicopters, before CalTrans found his car submerged under water after finding pieces of it strewn along an embankment way down behind the guard rail (one of the detectives working the case had given the Cal Trans highway workers one of the Missing Fliers which had two pictures of Will and one of the blue Camaro-that is how they knew to look farther down the gully for a car after they found blue pieces and a blue door down below a big oak tree that his car hit)…He worked a long way from home and had fallen asleep while driving to work early on a stormy December morning…it makes me weep every day when I think of losing my precious son. The pain never goes away.
It has been awful for my husband, my daughter & me. There are days it seems it is too hard to even breathe, but with God’s help we are making it through each day, sometimes just a minute at a time.
I am taking the Photoshop classes from BetterPhoto.com as well so that I can edit every single picture that I have of my son and make it the best it can possibly be. I always knew how important pictures of family were…but I never knew how precious and priceless they are until I lost my only beloved son in such a horrific accident. Dear God how we miss him…
I have been taking online classes through BetterPhoto.com for almost three years now, which has opened up a whole new world of knowledge of photography for me.
I love the classes and the ability to learn from professionals in the comfort of my own home on my own time…the classes are great and the instructors so far have been over the top!
My goal is to become a professional photographer. I want to learn everything about photography that I can.
My special interests are people and nature. I love to work with people in nature on location…especially on the coast... I love the ocean. This is how I came up with the name Simply Divine…I am trying to take photos of the Simply Divine creations of Almighty God.
Anything that I capture in a photo of God’s Divine creation is to bring glory and honor to Him, because He is the One who created both the people and the scenes of nature that I present in a photograph or portrait.
Some day I want to be able to travel the United States (to start with I just have to get out of California first) and later on other countries and take photos all over the world... Maybe Someday…