• Experience & Education
• Directions to the studio

A quick glimpse of who I am will reveal that I love to work with people! I like the dynamics of families. I enjoy capturing moments of joyous celebrations. Working with people and documenting life brings me great personal pleasure.

I grew up in Hanover, NH, where a local paper once noted my "love of the poetry of the camera." That was before I knew it myself!

My education includes: A.S., Business Administration, Endicott College, Beverly, Mass. and B.A., Liberal Studies, SUNY Brockport. I've lived in Rochester (NY), Chicago, Cincinnati, the Catskills, and finally moved back east to Montpelier in 1989. 

It was in New York, while working as a reporter/photographer for the local paper, that my career as a wedding and portrait photographer developed (pun intended!). My first chance to photograph a wedding! It was an amazing blend of excitement, wonder, fun, and nerves! And I loved it!

After that first experience, I joined the local professional photographer's association, took photography classes, upgraded my equipment and studied!

Once back on the East Coast, I attended the New England Institute of Professional Photography and joined the Vermont and New England professional photographers' associations.

In 1994, I won the title of Vermont's Business & Professional Women's Club's Young Careerist based on my work and volunteerism as well as a competition and final presentation.

In 1997 we moved to Woodbury, 15 miles from Montpelier. Our 20 acres (in the woods!) provides endless opportunities for wonderful outdoor portraiture in addition to the offerings of our indoor studio. 

I am married to a wonderful guy and have five children (four boys and then a girl!). In my spare time, I enjoy getting together with my friends, traveling, reading, going to the movies, and, yes, using my camera -- always experimenting and testing new things! I'm a former trustee of the Woodbury Community Library and volunteer at the elementary school. My life philosophy is to live each day as if it were my last.... that pretty much sums it up!

Studio Directions

FROM MONTPELIER: Traveling on I-89 North or South, get off at Exit 8 (Montpelier). The exit ramp puts you in correct direction into Montpelier. At the 4th light, take a left over the bridge on to Main Street. Shaws will be on your left just over the bridge. Follow Main Street, the fire station is on your right. Just after the fire station is a traffic light in the "center of town" at the intersection of Main & State Streets. Go straight through the light and continue on Main Street until you see the rotary.

Take the first right off the rotary (looking at the rotary, it makes a "Y", you want the right branch of the "Y"). From that point, travel 15.5 miles straight out on Main Street which becomes County Road (20 minutes to the studio from the rotary). Once you start traveling out of town, you'll see Center Road branching off to the right, STAY LEFT ON COUNTY ROAD (follow the "main" road by following the yellow center line in the road).

You'll pass Morse Farm on the right and get to Maple Corners where there's a store on the left and the road turns to dirt.

The ride is 5.5 miles on the dirt road (County Road). Just keep going - it feels like you are going for a long time, but it's only 5.5 miles on the dirt road and 20 minutes from Montpelier. (If you think you've gone too far or missed a turn, just keep going!) On your right will be our big gray 1840's post & beam barn.

Turn right at the barn onto Dog Pond Road and the house is on the right. It's a dark brown home, almost black looking, up on a knoll, and our name "Tedesco" is on the mailbox. It is 3111 Dog Pond Road in Woodbury, Vermont.

The studio is on the left side of the house with a separate staircase on the left. Enjoy the journey and be on the lookout for deer, moose, dogs and other critters!


FROM BARRE/ROUTE 14: Take Rt. 14 North, towards Hardwick. At the Woodbury Village Store (on your left), stay on Rt. 14 for another 1.5 miles. On the right, you'll see a sign for "GMCC Camp" (Green Mountain Conservation Corps Camp on Buck Lake). Slow down. You want the left "Greenwood Lake Road" which is directly across Rt. 14 from the GMCC Camp & Buck Lake Road.

Follow Greenwood Lake Road around the lake being VERY CAREFUL in the area where there are no guardrails and you are RIGHT next to the water! From the Rt. 14/Greenwood Lake turn off, travel about 3 miles and you'll see a large gray barn on the left. Just before the barn, turn left onto Dog Pond Road and the house is on the right. It's a dark brown home, almost black looking, up on a knoll, and our name "Tedesco" is on the mailbox. It is 3111 Dog Pond Road in Woodbury, Vermont. The studio is on the left side of the house with a separate staircase on the left.

Alternate route from Barre, if you feel daring enough! Take Rt. 14 North towards Hardwick. From Dudley's Store in East Montpelier, go 12 miles. In South Woodbury (there is a white church on the right, as well as the Woodbury Town Clerk's Office which is a white building), TURN LEFT on Foster Hill Road. Go 0.2 miles and take a right on to Dog Pond Road (the road turns to dirt). You'll go around a little pond and see a house that has all kinds of "stuff" on it. At 0.8 miles TURN RIGHT on to Dog Pond Road. Go 0.4 miles til the "Y". TURN LEFT on to Dog Pond Road. At 1.8 miles, turn left into the driveway. The mailbox is on your left. Total trip from Rt. 14 is about 3 miles.