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commuting and her career as an animal photographer when the couple’s daughter Heather, now three years old, was born.
Since 1978, they’ve been weekend residents, operating a full service studio from their city home Mondays through Fridays. "We do just about everything but it’s really the kiss of death,” Henry complained. "To make a lot of money, you’ve got to specialize...But that doesn’t take care of the photographer’s inner needs.”
Summer Project
This past summer, they focused on those inner needs, giving up their regular weekday rounds of product photography (advertising shots), public relations work ("grip-and-grins’), portraits and weddings to concentrate on “Rappahannock Exposure,” their autumn exhibition.
"We spent weekends driving down back roads with Heather and all her dolls and toys in the back of the car,” Francie recalled. “We had a lot of good adventures and some not so good, including a run-in with a rabid fox and a rattlesnake."
"The fox was standing on the bottom step at Tom Eastham’s and the dog was at the top step, looking down and barking at it. The fox had an expression of bewilderment on his face. It was really kind of sad,” Henry said.
The rattlesnake encounter came when the photographers were taking shots of old stone walls in Old Hollow. Henry spotted the reptile crossing the road and dispatched it with a machete. The trophy from the kill—thirteen rattles—now sits beside ceremic cows on a shelf in the farmhouse kitchen.
Francie believes that she and Henry both gained a lot professionally and personally, from taking three months off a more hectic city schedule to collect Rappahannock exposures.
“ 1 feel good about a lot of
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