Alice Mayer of Mayer Photography is my favorite photographer, hands-down. While she is talented doing family portraits and is hired often to do this kind of work as well as weddings and shots on locations throughout the world, my favorites of her work are her Abstracts Gallery as well as her Graves and Graveyards studies and her bizarre but SO COOL Doll Studies. While you may find the Doll Studies a little weird, don't be intimidated to check them out: my 80 year-old Mom thought they were great! Of course, she did give birth to me, so...
White Pigeon on Sill, Poros
When I worked in D.C., I was tired of everyone referring to pigeons as "rats with wings", so I asked Alice to take a photograph that captured the beauty of a pigeon. I said it as a joke, but she followed through. I think she was successful, don't you?