Feature Photographer Ruth Jackson

From the time I was a little kid I’ve been interested in photography. In fact, one of my first memories was sitting on the floor looking at my parent’s photo album. I was in grade school when I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie. When I was 12, I built a darkroom in our garage and began developing pictures. Later, I moved up to a 35mm Argus C3 and carried that camera with me wherever I happened to go.

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I traveled all over the west – from Oklahoma to Wyoming and back again – taking pictures of what I saw, the places I passed, and the people I met. It seems like I’ve always had a camera with me and I’ve taken pictures while working on a ranch in Wyoming, Smoke jumping for the Forest Service in Montana, flying an Army plane all over the United States, driving across the country from one shore to the other, and while living in Mexico. However, I almost stopped taking pictures during the time I was a clinical psychologist. I moved to Sun City six years ago from Mexico and joined the Photography Club three years later. That was when I found out how little I knew about taking pictures and that’s when my real education in photography began. And, I’m still learning.