Austin Workshop @ Biotrek, Sunny Reynolds of Warrenton, VA

Internationally published and nationally awarded author Barbara Esstman, BA, MFA, is the co-editor, with Virginia Hartman, of A MORE PERFECT UNION: STORIES AND POEMS ABOUT THE MODERN WEDDING (St. Martin's Press). She is also the author of THE OTHER ANNA and NIGHT RIDE HOME, both published in the US by Harcourt Brace and Harper Perennial and in numerous translations by Bertelsmann and other foreign presses.
Both novels were adapted for TV film by Hallmark Productions, and NIGHT RIDE HOME was once a question on Jeopardy, a fact which impresses some people more than the book itself.

Her short stories and essays have appeared in Lear's and various literary magazines such as Confrontation, and the Pushcart Prizes and the REDBOOK Fiction Award have recognized them.

Her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, among others, and she writes travel PR copy for Biotrek Adventure Tours.

She is a NEA, VCCA and Maryland Commission for the Arts fellow. She teaches creative writing and creative non-fiction at universities and The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.

After visiting Austin this summer, her plans include retiring as a bag lady there - living in the stacks at the Harry Ransom Center and enjoying the city's meal program that includes both food and live music - while she finishes her next book.

Bat River Cruise

Born in Syracuse, New York, Sunny Reynolds has lived in the Greater Washington area and Northern Virginia for the last 25 years. She was educated at Syracuse University, with classes in photography at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She continued her artistic and technical education at professional workshops in the United States and Europe, and was a participant in the Aries International Photographic Workshop in Aries, France, and Maine photographic workshops for which intensive portfolio reviews were a prerequisite for admission.

Today, Sunny specializes in commercial and corporate advertising photography with travel photography as an additional channel. She also owns and manages a photography studio and gallery in the historical district of Warrenton, Virginia, and teaches photography at all levels. Reynolds has been a consistent winner of awards for her photography. Nikon's International Contest, which attracted more than 38,000 entries from all over the world, honored Reynolds as one of 35 winners. Her photography was selected for the Nikon Calendar of the Year.

Sunny has traveled extensively, studying and photographing many cultures including Massai tribal women, Peruvian Indian weavers and Indonesian dock workers. The countries of Chile, Spain, Costa Rica, Guatemala, New Zealand and the Yucatan Peninsula also have been the subjects of her photo stories demonstrating her unique ability to work with people of many cultures and locations.

Sunny has an award-winning eye for light and design, and has perfected a variety of photographic techniques such as black and white hand painting. Ms. Reynolds is dedicated to the promotion of photography as fine art and continues to work with interior designers creating imposing images for select residential and large corporate clients.

Additionally, Sunny leads and organizes adventure travel for small groups to Chile, Costa Rica, Peru and Tanzania The Galapagos Islands, India, Guatemala, and Morocco under her company Biotrek Adventure Travels L.L.C. Conceived in 1994, Biotrek Tours originated from the photographer's extensive professional travels worldwide.

Publications
Running Press, Courage Publications, Boats: February 2002
Storey Publishing, Inc., Hardie Newton's Celebration of Flowers, 1997
Time-Life Books, Anatolia: Cauldrons of Cultures, Lost Civilizations series, 1995

Clients *A Selection
Airlie Foundation * America's Cup * American Bank * American Psychological Association * Azure Records * Bath & Body Works * British Aerospace * Capital One * Castlerock Enterprises * Conde Nast Magazine * Continental Telecom * Country Living Magazine *The FAA * The Fauquier Bank* Fender Guitar * First American Bank * General Electric * Hazel Construction * Hearst Publishing * National Institute of Health * Nikon * Northern Virginia Magazine * McGraw Hill Publishing * Miller Brothers Construction* PW Campbell * Random House Publishing * Running Press Publishing * Smithsonian Institution * The George Washington University * The Washington Magazine * The Washington Post * Time Life * Trial Magazine * Wells Fargo *

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