Gretchen Troop graduated from the prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University in 1988 with a major in Illustration Photography. A focus on studio photography developed her eye for detail and precision apparent in her later work. Although she did not pursue a career as a studio photographer, choosing instead to become a professional singer, she has continued to love photography and shoot all over the world.

Although she began shooting in film and in black & white, Gretchen was clearly a color photographer. She has an exceptional eye for color. Her photography was almost non-existent after college until she got her first digital camera. Gretchen started working in Photoshop almost as soon as it was invented, starting with Photoshop 3. Her skill with computers made the digital camera an obvious choice. Her first digital, a Nikon Cool Pix 950 was purchased in 1999 and a whole new wave of photography began.

During the web craze in the Bay Area she traveled all over the world working on Photoshop by day and shooting after her day of work was through. She visited Spain, Bermuda and Portugal internationally, and traveled the US extensively. Most of her more outstanding work was shot during her steady road trips from San Francisco to Boulder Colorado and back. Camping the whole way, she found the country between the two cities to be some of the most intensely beautiful in the world. Southern Utah was a common stop along the way.

In 2003 she tired of living in the city and settled into a healthier way of life in Boulder, Colorado. In Boulder she bought a digital SLR camera, the Nikon D70. This allowed her the technical freedom to once again shoot professionally. Having the capabilities of the SLR camera and the ease of digitially processing the pictures was the final push needed to rekindle Gretchen's love of photography to a professional level.

Each one of her trips yields a better quality of photos. The most recent Alaska trip was a revelation of photography and "the best I have ever shot". Inspired by this most recent shoot and a feeling of coming full circle back to her love of photography, Gretchen is releasing her photo collection to local galleries and selling her work to individuals.

Gretchen has a book of her photography available by appointment and many, many more photos than are shown online here. Please feel free to contact her to make an appointment to view her work.