Deane Winegar

Helen Deane Dozier (formerly Deane Winegar) has been photographing and writing about Virginia and Virginians since 1970, painting canvases with light, color and words to depict nature, animals, and people. She has worked for the Waynesboro New-Virginian (reporter and photographer), the Charlottesville Daily Progress (bureau chief) and the Richmond Times-Dispatch (outdoor writing and photography). Her photography decorates walls of homes and offices, and the virtual walls of the World Wide Web. Her comprehensive outdoor guidebooks help natives and visitors find their way around the mountains, the Piedmont and the Chesapeake Bay. She is in the process of writing an introduction for a book of panoramic photographs about Virginia's natural beauty.

After a dozen years of selling her books and photography at art shows up and down the East coast, Deane pulled up tent stakes and made her pictures and books available in gift shops and by viewing them on her website at http://deanescreativearts.com. A popular spin-off of her photography is the creation of slideshows put to music for family events.

Deane also is a consultant and coder of the Adult Attachment Interview used in psychology research. Contact her through her website, http://aaicoding.com

Deane lives in the Blue Ridge on the southern end of Shenandoah National Park, near Waynesboro, Virginia, with park deer and bear as her closest neighbors.