This is a 18" x 24" matted photograph of a scene in Vietnam, taken in 1997.

Barbara Bickford is a published photographer who has had numerous one-woman shows.  Here is her artistic vision:

"Every time I click the shutter of my camera is a beginning for me - a chance to make a clean start, to be an original. Taking
pictures for me is a resounding "yes".
My goal is always to refine my response to images that captivate me. I want to show familiar scenes in a surprising new light
show them as they unfold - often upbeat, irreverent, and surreal.
I love photography's ability to show more than we could ever see with the human eye. I want to express truth and the
nature of being in one captured moment. I want my images to mean a hundred different things to a hundred different people.
I almost always know when a good image happens. I don't hear the shutter click; I am at one with my camera and my subject -
I truly connect ."