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Hometown: Wilmington, DE

PixelWorks is the combination of the creative duo consisting of Peggy Deare and Phil McGrew. They met at an owl’s nest years ago and have been embarking upon photography adventures since. While their passion is wildlife photography, they never turn down a good landscape, eclipse, or nighttime opportunity. When the summer heat limits wildlife viewing, they travel to military airshows. On occasion, their families will force them to take pictures of people.

They have traveled from Northern Canada to Chile, and Yosemite to Maine. The list of future trips is too long to mention. Their photography has been featured on NBC News, CBS News, CNN, Stephen Colbert, and the Weather Channel. Print photos have appeared on book covers, college courses, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Mail, and various papers in between.

Photography offers them a fun excuse to research, plan, learn, and travel. When they are not on photography trips, they relax by thinking about photography trips or by forcing their families to hear fun facts about birds.

Hometown: Easton, MD

Sarah Ann Jump is an artist born and raised on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Her work focuses on storytelling through interdisciplinary mediums, including photography, interaction design, and book arts. After a career documenting others’ stories for newspapers, she has recently turned to telling her own family’s tales.

During the Waterfowl Festival, Sarah Ann will be exhibiting “The Island”, an artist’s book with handmade paper pages made from phragmites — the invasive reed species taking over the Chesapeake Bay’s wetlands — embedded with nature findings and scented with Old Bay seasoning. The instant film photography within captures a private hunting island threatened by sea level rise and preserves its sportsman culture.

She earned an MFA in interaction design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a BFA in photojournalism from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, and frequently returns to the Easton area to work on projects and visit family. See more of her work at sajump.com and follow along on Instagram @sarahannjump.

Hometown: Milton, DE

Based out of Milton, DE. I find my inspiration from the vastly different and beautiful beaches, parks, farms, wildlife, and landscapes of Delmarva.

Hometown: Milton, DE

Kevin Fleming has covered the world as a photographer for National Geographic.  Assignments have taken him into war and famine in Somalia, to the Mediterranean for a re-creation of the voyage of Ulysses and put him on a dogsled crossing the Canadian arctic.  He has worked in 28 countries photographing subjects as diverse as the sub-atomic world of high-energy physics and New Zealand sheep ranchers.  While reporting on the Sinai Peninsula in 1981, Kevin came under the assassins’ gunfire that killed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.  He escaped with some of the few photographs of that tragic moment.

A Delaware native, Kevin began his career as a newspaper photographer after attending Wesley College (where he has been inducted into their Hall of Fame).  He then spent a decade as a National Geographic photographer and most recently has concentrated on creating books.   His photography has won many national and international awards.

Hometown: Dover, DE

Julie Memmolo is an award winning photographer from Dover, Delaware. She received her first camera as a teenager and her passion for photography has never waned. About ten years ago she discovered her love for wildlife photography. Her work has been published in multiple Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research calendars, Bombay Hook NWR brochures, Delaware Center for the Inland Bays publications and Outdoor Delaware Magazine.

She enjoys the beauty and peace of nature as she captures with her camera what she sees. She and her husband often travel in search of new birds and other wildlife to photograph. Owls and Green Herons are her favorite subjects to photograph.

Julie and her husband have two grown children and a daughter in law. She volunteers at her church doing community outreach events, as well as volunteering at the Bombay Hook NWR Welcome Center.

Hometown: Easton, MD

Sharon Denny has been cultivating her twin passions of photography and nature most of her life. Since retiring as an executive at a Fortune 500 company, she spends her time observing and photographing wildlife in the Delmarva region.

She is the second artist in her family to exhibit at the Waterfowl Festival. Her late uncle, James N. (Jim) Denny shared his bird carvings with festival visitors for many years.

Her bird photography has won multiple awards and has been featured in several publications. She was named both Versatile Photographer of the Year and Photographer of the year in 2022 by the Coastal Camera Club.

A native of Easton, MD, she currently lives in Rehoboth Beach, DE.

Hometown: Townsend, DE

Heather L. Orkis is a local photographer from Townsend, Delaware, her passion is wildlife photography, mainly DUCKS. Heather is a self-taught photographer and always willing to teach others. When she is not out looking for and shooting the local birds and animals, she works a full-time job as a Flight Paramedic. Heather has been involved in public service for 20 years, starting her career as a firefighter and then putting herself through paramedic school while raising two kids and working three jobs. Heather’s husband and two adult children are all paramedics. Photography is a way for Heather to decompress, she uses the solitude of lying in a duck blind for hours as a way of relaxation and self-reflection. Recently, Heather was awarded her first International Photography Silver Medal in the 85th Wilmington International Exhibition of Photography 2018.

The Mid-Atlantic region of the United States is where she plays and shoot! Recent art shows have included:

• CrowFest 2016, Kennedyville, Maryland
• Art on the Greene, Old New Castle, Delaware
• North American Duck Symposium, Annapolis, Maryland
• Townsend Fire Company Annual Holiday Fair, Townsend, Delaware
• Lo-Del Art Festival, Georgetown, Delaware
• Cheswold Sportsman Show, Cheswold, Delaware

Hometown: Easton, MD

I am a Veteran of 23 years military service and a regional truck driver for 18 years. I have retired from both of these careers and now my sole focus is my photography.

I am a self taught photographer whose passion is landscapes and wildlife. Especially sunrises/sunsets and being a veteran, Bald Eagles. I have been interested in photography since I was a teenager using throw away Kodak cameras when I could. My interest back then (and still is) was the stars. I upgraded to a Nikon Coolpix point and shoot camera for my wife’s and my 5th Anniversary trip to Paris way back when. I used those types of cameras for many years for all types of genres, including on my deployments.

I bought my first DSLR, a Nikon D3400 with a 16-300mm lens, while driving trucks in the Northeast United States in 2016. I saw countless sunrises and sunsets, nights with the stars and moon shining, Bald Eagles, Ospreys and Great Blue Herons that I wanted to capture the beauty of what I was seeing. Photography became my hobby that relieved the stress of driving in bad weather, traffic and making deliveries on time. That part time hobby quickly became my passion. I don’t leave home without a camera and I soon upgraded to a Nikon D750 and a large format printer. I started selling my own prints part time at festivals, art shows and local community vendor events.

My wife and I recently moved to Easton, MD from the Poconos in Pennsylvania. We love the area and it is a photographer’s paradise. I currently have my art on exhibit in Shelter Island, NY where my wife grew up and we lived for years. I am starting a photography workshop and kayak tours while my wife has started a Bed and Breakfast. I still shoot and print my own work and I upgraded my printer to print 24″ pieces of art.