Photography Education

• 2012 Master workshop with Freeman Patterson, Cobourg, Ontario
• 2012 Week-long workshop with André Gallant, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
• 2011 Three-day workshop with Richard Martin, Cobourg, Ontario
• 2010 Week-long workshop with Sally Mason (New Zealand), St. Martins, New Brunswick
• 2004 Week-long workshop “Photo Impressionism,” Haliburton School of the Arts
• 2003 Week-long workshop with Freeman Patterson and André Gallant, Saint John, New Brunswick
• 2001 Week-long workshop with Freeman Patterson and André Gallant, Saint John, New Brunswick
• 2001 Week-long workshop with Richard Martin and Stephen Scott Patterson, Gananoque, Ontario
• 2000 Weekend workshop with Richard Martin, Kingston, Ontario
• 1999 Weekend workshop with Richard Martin, Kingston, Ontario
• 1998 Week-long workshop with Freeman Patterson and André Gallant, Saint John, New Brunswick
• 1996 Various seminars presented by Freeman Patterson, André Gallant, Richard Martin, and Stephen Scott Patterson
  
  

Photography Adjudication

• 2012 Port Hope Horticultural Society annual photography contest
• 2011 Warkworth Long Lunch, Spirit of the Hills 5th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition
• 2011 One of a team selecting photographs for We Live Here, County of Northumberland book
• 2010 Peterborough Photographic Society annual photography slide contest
• 2010 Port Hope Horticultural Society annual photography contest
• 2009 Port Hope High School photography contest
• 2009 Earth Day Photography Contest, Port Hope
• 2009 Rice Lake Horticultural Society annual photography contest, Gore’s Landing, Ontario
• 2008 EAPA Multi-Club Annual digital contest, Kingston - Napanee - Rideau Lakes
• 2008 Rice Lake Horticultural Society annual photography contest

Photography Book Editing Projects

Before becoming drawn to photography Mary worked as an administrative assistant in Bermuda, Toronto, and Port Hope, later establishing a freelance editing business which saw her adding copy editing, proofreading, and indexing to her skills, working for a variety of authors and publishers.

Photography-related editing projects included the following books and articles:

Freeman Patterson and André Gallant, Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image, Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2001

B.A. (Tony) King, Time and Quiet, Black Ice Publishers, Southborough, Massachusetts, October 2001

André Gallant, articles in Photo Life, Toronto, 2003-04

Other Projects

• Spring 2013, Cover Photograph and Article, The Link magazine, Northumberland, Peterborough, Hastings & Prince Edward Counties.
• July 2011 Commission (Daylilies) for resident of Cobourg, Ontario
• July/August 2009 Interview in ArtScene, Pine Ridge Arts Council, Durham Region
• 2008-2009 Chair of committee organizing "Open Up!" weekend of learning opportunities, Northumberland Photography Club, Port Hope
• November 2007 Panel member "Exploring Freeman Patterson's Photography Style," Oshawa Camera Club
• 2006 Shared leadership of photography weekend tour from Saint John, New Brunswick to Deer Island with Maurice Henri
• 2006-07 Chair of committee to bring Freeman Patterson to Northumberland County for presentation, Northumberland Photography Club, Port Hope
• 2006-09 Co-ordinator programme and outings, Chair of annual exhibition committee, Coordinator for image discussion, Northumberland Photography Club, Port Hope
• Spring 2005 "Landscapes - of the Eye and of the Mind," article published in Empress, on-line arts newsletter
• March 2005, November 2004, July 2004, Images published in Photo Life "Showtime"
• 2002 – 2005 Coordinator, Photography room, Upstairs Gallery, Port Hope
• Spring/Summer 2003, Interview in Empress, on-line arts newsletter
• July 2000 Assignment for landscape architect in Toronto: (Gardens of Courthouse Square, York University; Forest Hill home)