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April 2007
by By Sheila Caim

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Mist.
During a drought several years ago, the West Fork of the Little Kanawha River nearly dried up. Caim was walking in the dusty riverbed early one morning when she came to a spot that still held water. She photographed mist rising from the water and worked the images into a digital watercolor.
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When Sheila Caim (pronounced “Came”) selects an image to capture photographically, she is often touched by what she sees through the lens. She may sense a mood underlying the image; she may feel the presence of the past. In practicing traditional and fine-art photography, Caim seeks to express her personal vision to viewers. Through digital artistry—her passion—she uses color, texture, and tone to bring out hidden aspects of an image.
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Caim begins with one of her color or black-and-white photographs. Then, with the computer as her canvas, she uses light, transformed through a digital stylus, to create effects traditional artists achieve with brushes and physical pigments. The result is a striking photographic image that resembles a watercolor or oil painting, or an ink sketch. Recently, Caim has been experimenting with using digital artistry and multiple images to create startling yet intimate montages, especially of the natural world: ice, a river, ghostly trees, cattails.
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A Philadelphia native and longtime resident of Creston in Wirt County, West Virginia, Caim has been taking photographs all of her life. Yet, it wasn’t until about seven years ago, around the time she purchased her first digital camera, that photography began to assume a larger place in her life. Since that time, her beautifully unique images have earned her juried membership to the West Virginia Arts and Crafts Guild and the Allied Artists of West Virginia. Her photographs are sold in several galleries across West Virginia, including Tamarack and the Wheeling Artisan Center, and have been featured at art shows and exhibitions in several states.
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Of her work, the former math teacher and database programmer says, “I’ve loved all my jobs, but this is what I’ll do for the rest of my life.”
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To view more of Sheila Caim’s extraordinary work, visit her Lightscapes Web site: www.sheilacaim.com.
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Capitol Street
A digital painting of Capitol Street in downtown Charleston. The old buildings and brick sidewalks give a hint of yesteryear.

Tapestry in Ice
Caim combined three images––the lake at Tamarack in Beckley, ghostly trees, and cattails––to create a mood of peace and silence.

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