Your Name: Pamela Sage
Your Community: I live in the Lake in the Hills/Algonquin area.
Your Background/Training: I am a professional graphic designer and photographer, with formal training and a BA from Columbia College Chicago. I’ve continued my education through industry associations, workshops, online education, and collaboration with other professionals.
I had the honor of being the Photography Fellow at Raue Center for the Arts, in Crystal Lake and that experience was amazing. I had creative freedom to experiment and try new techniques every week and I continue to freelance for them at their historic theater.
Your Preferred Medium: Photography is my preferred medium as it gives me the opportunity to preserve something that might otherwise disappear — an expression, a feeling, a relationship, a personality, a stage of life, or simply a moment that deserves to be remembered.
Your Preferred Subjects and Why: Most of my photography centers around portraiture; newborns, children, families, weddings, animals. Everyone deserves to exist in photographs — not only for themselves, but for the people who love them.
That is why pet photography means so much to me. Our animals are family, and their lives never seem long enough. Having beautiful photographs that capture their expressions and personalities can become incredibly meaningful — especially when their portrait is hanging in your home.
I also love entertainment photography, including theater productions, concerts, musicians and band portraits. It’s an entirely different kind of personality, energy, and story.
What Inspires Your Work? The beautiful contrast and tonal range seen in Ansel Adam’s b/w photography has been a big influence on me, as well as the edgy but beautiful lighting that illuminates Robert Mapplethorpe in his self portraits. One of my biggest influences has been Annie Leibovitz. Not only did she have a body of work that was unique and expressive while contributing to Vogue and Rolling Stone Magazine, she also modeled that women can succeed in roles that, until then, were only held by men. She showed me it was possible.
Is Your Work for Sale? How Can Someone Contact You? Yes! My work is for sale and my photography services are available, too. My business, Pamela Sage Photography, is based in Crystal Lake but I work with clients throughout McHenry, DuPage, and Cook Counties, as well as Chicago, and across the border in Wisconsin. I am always up for creative portraits and capturing what is important for you. Contact me through my website: www.pamelasage.com or call or text me at: 630-564-5431.
Your preferred subject: The restaurants, venues, neighborhoods and landmarks we grow up with become part of our stories, and even the places that are long gone can hold a special place in our hearts.
The dark cloud of the Covid-19 pandemic held a silver lining for Huntley resident Sienna Kelly. Being stuck at home gave her an opportunity to rediscover her artist talents, and eventually launch her own stationery business.
Your name: Sienna Kelly
Is your work for sale? If so, how can someone contact you? Yes, my book is. You can check out American Vacation at the library (it is currently in 15 libraries statewide). You can also purchase the eBook (with all the photos) 
AAPLD is pleased to welcome the Land Conservancy of McHenry County back to our Art Wall, displaying the entries in the organization's 2026 photo contest.
Stop in and enjoy a look at the plants, animals and inspiring natural beauty of McHenry County!
Steven Hillmann, AAPLD's Artist of the Month for January, captures the life in inanimate objects. Buildings and architecture; bustling or abandoned. Toys that appear to be posing for portraits. Even celestial objects, progressing through changes and phases we couldn't observe on our own.
Name: Michelle Marsh
Your name: david
Your preferred subject: the abstract, the angular, the anguish