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'Azalea', digital print, Martha Weintraub Martha Weintraub is a photo-artist based in New Jersey. She happens to be my wife's cousin, and when Martha attended my and Patty's wedding, she gave us a beautiful, intriguing framed print of one of her photos, which hangs in our weekend house near the Mississippi River. I've been looking at and admiring that picture for so long that I decided it was time to explore Martha's art a little more deeply. Click here to see Martha Weintraub's work online . Her new work is on display at Gallery 14 in Hopewell, NJ. Philip : When did you become a photographer, and why? Martha : Well, just about everyone is a photographer, right? I had point-and-shoot cameras and recorded family gatherings, trips, my kids' milestones, etc., all my adult life. But I began taking photography seriously when I got my first “serious” camera in 1997—a Nikon SLR film camera. At first I used the camera to take travel photos but then branc...