Harriet Noyes Education:      Radcliffe College, BA in English, 1955                      Yale College, MA in Teaching of English, 1956                      Lesley College, MA in Counseling and Psychology, 1986 Exhibitions:    (Nov/Dec 2006) Recent Work (solo), Friends Meeting House,                      Cambridge, MA                      2006  Images of Arlington, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA                      2005  Summer Show, Friends Meeting House, Cambridge, MA Biography: I was born in New Haven Connecticut in 1933, to Isabelle Hollister Tuttle, painter, and Henry Emerson Tuttle, artist and educator.  A picture taken of me at my eighth grade graduation party shows me with a Brownie camera around my neck, evidence that I had already begun snapping pictures of my friends, my family and my pets. However, until recently, photography has been an accompaniment to my life rather than a focus of it. When my children were little I was often watching them through the lens of a camera.  If my husband was rock-hounding, I would amuse myself by hunting for pictures to take in the surrounding area. At some point I took courses through the Cambridge Adult Education Center and the DeCordova Museum to learn how to use a darkroom. For a while I used nothing but black and white, partly because I could easily print my film, and partly because I wanted the discipline of making a landscape visually interesting without color. It was during my husband’s sabbaticals when I was up-rooted from my usual responsibilities that I would really make photography my main activity, and would find a course to take that would give me access to a darkroom. During the last such interruption in 2000 I learned to use Photoshop, and I was hooked. In my early life I always felt that I took pictures because I couldn’t draw or paint, and that photography was somehow a lesser art form. With the passage of time when photography has really come into its own, and with the amount of control which Photoshop can provide, I no longer feel creatively handicapped, and find photography consuming more and more of my time. I have taken Holly Pedlosky’s courses in digital photography and Karen Davis’s Atelier, all of which have spurred me on and have challenged me to go public with my efforts.