Come meet Vicki Payne, P.A.St.A. Art Gallery's Featured Artist for July.  Vicki takes photographs of nature's beauty, light, colors, and wonderful creations like the oceans, trees, flowers, birds, and animals.  Her specialty is waiting for the light.  Light is one of nature's special gifts.  Each moment has its own unique light representation, depending on the place, time of day, and environment.  She celebrates nature's spectacles, capturing them through the lens as best she can.

Vicki was born in the Czech Republic and now lives in sunny Florida.  She has a degree in Photography, initially learning the photography trade using film, chemicals, and dark room processing.

Capturing images of light has been a passion since she took her first steps into photography.  Digital technology has revolutionized photography, bringing us convenience, and new techniques, which film processing did not have.  She has fully converted from film to digital.  However, her pictures always stay 'true' to the captured image, and her vision of the world as she sees it through the lens.

The show's opening will coincide with the First Friday Art Walk.  Art Walk hours are 5-9 p.m.  Refreshments served.  Vicki will be featured the entire month of July.

The gallery is located at 214 Charlotte Street, St. Augustine.  Please call 904-824-0251 for further information.  Admission is always free.