Susan Bein is a Portland, Oregon-based designer and photographer whose "day job" is teaching digital camera skills and applications such as Adobe PhotoShop, InDesign and Illustrator. Her creative work over four decades is collected in impressionistic portfolios featuring a dizzying variety of people, places and things, assembled, interpreted and manipulated according to her personal vision. She states, "I've been a creative type since anyone can remember, and it permeates everything, from buying a toothbrush to peeling an orange.