Photographer & Writer
Kathleen M. McDevitt
Kathleen Willson McDevitt- My formal name is Kathleen, but my nicknames are Kate or Kathy and sometimes my old friends call me Wills. My family and I grew up on a small farm in the middle of Havertown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. There was a big house in the middle of our five acres that had its own name, Woodleigh. We lived at 221 Colfax Road at Paddock Pony Farms; the area took the name from our place. I went to St. Denis Grade School, Archbishop Prendergast High School and I am a graduate of Immaculata University, Malvern, PA.
Here is my website. Thanks for visiting this photographer, writer, and storyteller.
I am a daughter, a sister, a Mom,
and Grandmother!
So, I hope I can make you smile.
Better yet, laugh at my stories.
Life is about the journey!
Smile, laugh or cry but,
Be sure to enjoy the ride!
Dibbidi-Dobbidi-Boo!
Photography
Color is my love through the lens of a camera! I started out with black and white film using a huge Graphic newspaper camera. It was owned by Archbishop Prendergast High School. We had an
official dark room fully stocked with trays, chemicals, and a professional enlarger. Sister Nazaretta, IHM, was our moderator and teacher. We developed prints, rolls of film, and took photos for Prendie’s
school newspaper.
After graduation, my first camera was a Brownie Camera with color film cartridge and then one of my
favorites cameras was an Olympus point and shoot with a great zoom lens 55 to 70 mm. Eventually,
after several cameras over the years, I made it up to a single lens Canon with an interchangeable lens, 55 mm and 300 mm. First it was film and with the Millenium, I switched to digital. What a convenience! What a change! No more rationing my photos, five to a subject. My subjects are
lighthouses, clocks, flowers, horses, beaches, the sea, and boardwalks. And don’t forget the people, family, friends, and strangers too. With a family history of Photography, I find I love it till this day, I take a picture of something almost every day, everywhere, everyone knows I’m the picture taker!
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Writing
When I was a teenager, I found myself defending many articles about the teenagers of the day. I was always defending them after negative stories were printed in the Bulletin, the Saturday Evening Post, or Life magazine. I would write passionately and no one would ever see my thoughts. It was a great release at the critical age of 13 to 17. Over the many years of my life, I have taken writing courses. Mostly freelance, creative writing, and memoirs classes. Looking back, I have been published many times, in local newspapers, work publications, and community news. It was usually promoting something coming or something passed. Articles were always short and with humor and information. And now I have written a book. This is quite a jump for me. It’s like I came out of the writing closet!
Read Some Of My Featured Stories!
Margate Stories At The Shore
It starts in March with our income tax return. We find a house and we
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