Emily L. Ferguson began to pursue photography seriously in 1993 as a medium to share her love for the Cape. With only scant formal training, her skills have been developed as needed, assisted by an early workshop with Galen Rowell and a year shooting news for Falmouth Publishing. She was an invited artist in Women Creating in 1999, and has been juried in many other years. Her images appear on web pages, products and in publications around New England. Larger pieces reside in private collections throughout the United States.

Emily's first love is the water around us. Her landscapes include the shorelines of Cape Cod and Rhode Island, but she also shows many facets of life on the water throughout the area. Sailing, cranberrying, harbors, bogs and landmarks between dawn and dusk appear in her images. "I've tried to make myself go inland," she says, "but somehow I find myself standing next to a creek even in the deep woods!" At present Emily works entirely digitally, but she has many images on film as well. "I enjoy the digital process for the immediate response it gives me. Color printing by digital devices has attained a high level of capability in the last five years and image preparation requires thought and imagination as well as computer skills. The same element of play which resided in film and the darkroom can be enjoyed with the computer."