Deanna started taking pictures of babies after the birth of her own baby, Emily, in 1999. She loved the cute posters and cards she could buy of babies in costumes, but she wanted her baby, not someone else’s, on her walls. So she sewed some flower petals on a hat and propped her six-week-old baby in a flower pot.  As soon as other people saw the picture, they wanted one done too, and Fun Prints began.

Deanna studied journalism at the University of Texas and interned at The Classroom Teacher magazine, where she wrote stories and took pictures. Once out of school, she became a teacher, and taught high school photography as well as sponsoring the school yearbook and newspaper. She learned Adobe Photoshop in order to teach it to her students, and now uses a digital camera and Photoshop to create the digital art used for her images.

Deanna runs a group for professional photographers and teaches classes ranging from beginners with point and shoot cameras, to advanced amateurs with manual SLRs, to full on professionals. Keep current with her class offerings at the University of Texas or you can email her if you have a playgroup or mom’s club who would like her to teach a hands-on two or three hour class on using their digital cameras. (Typically about $65 per hour.)

Deanna is a member of the Writers’ League of Texas and currently serves as Chairperson of Novel-in-Progress, a longstanding critique group that has generated many published writers.

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