About the Photographer/Artist:

Linda Saxon Nix is native of Mississippi who has resided in Biloxi (on the Mississippi Gulf Coast) for 28 years. She began her interest in painting while living in Colorado, and still paints a little. Although she has enjoyed taking photographs all of her life, her interest in serious photography began when she started taking photos as reference shots for her paintings. It was when those reference shots became more interesting to her than paintings made from them, and when people started asking about purchasing her photographs, that she became a serious photographer.
Her photographs are in homes and offices in many states as well as Australia, Spain and Denmark.
She garnered the Award of Light at the 2002 Ocean Springs Multimedia Art Show with her magnolia photograph, "Reflections". In 2002, she was accepted into the prestigious George Ohr National Art Challenge by Juror Paul Soldner. Three of her photographs were juried into the Photography 2005 exhibit at the Tennessee Valley Art Association.
Although her focus is on capturing unusual and alluring photographs of magnolias in all stages from bud to seed pod, she also likes to photograph other flowers, old buildings, pelicans, seascapes and sand dunes, lighthouses, unusual thingies and "old things".

In addition to her fine art photography, her magnolia photographs have been used in various advertising campaigns, on wedding invitations, for brochures, logos, and web pages, in a book about Mississippi for libraries, twice by Louisiana Life Magazine, and are often used by school and college students all over the country when doing reports and presentations about magnolias flowers and trees. She has handled school publicity, taken photos of teachers for newspapers, works with graphics, and was webmaster for her school web site. She has numerous web pages of her own, a result of the fun she has when developing new pages.

She is active in local art associations and in several in Alabama. She belongs to and exhibits with the Ocean Springs Art Association's Co-Op, The Art House, on Cash Alley in Ocean Springs. She is a member of Professional Photographers of Mississippi and Alabama. She exhibits locally in several galleries and in a local library. She exhibits in four or five outdoor art festivals yearly, mostly around the Gulf Coast or in surrounding states. From her original paintings and photographs, she creates series of gift cards and magnets using her art and photography, which she sells at art shows and in galleries.

Nix enjoys working in PhotoShop, mostly to optimize her photographs as photographers do when they develop their photographs in a dark room. She uses her art training to enhance some of her photographs in order to make them more artistic in appearance. She occasionally combines photos to create an effect or cause a result not possible with the camera.
She prefers to print her own archival photographs because, being a near-perfectionist, she is better able to control the results. When she does have larger photographs made at a lab, she has them printed from a CD that she has created in PhotoShop, ensuring a better-controlled image.

Nix is a born photographer. She constantly feels the "pull" to take photographs, and feels naked without her camera when outdoors and when traveling. She strives create images that people enjoy. She plans to continue with her photography, which is her means of expression, so that she can visually share the beauty of nature and and her fascination of life and the world with others.