English teacher Candis Harrell has traveled the world and taken her Nikon D40 SCR camera with her.

“When I first moved here, I did not have a job, so I took the time to play with my travel pictures. I started photoshopping and doing size things with pictures, and as an experiment, I put some on canvas. I liked that, so I started a business,” said Ms. Harrell.

Ms. Harrell’s business, Eye of the Beholder, has a Facebook page where some of her work is featured. She also had an art show over the summer in Fayetteville and displays all her artwork in her home. Ms. Harrell sells to friends, online customers, or people who see them in her home.

Ms. Harrell’s series of photos varies by country. Some of her favorites include black and white shots from La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina where there are over 4,000 tombs with intricate architecture.

“It needs to represent something I love and strikes me as being interesting,” said Ms. Harrell.

Ms. Harrell looks for different ways of composing ordinary scenes in order to get a unique composition.

“I photo shop to correct color and contrast, then have the pictures printed on canvas,” she said.

The travel photographer buys the framing bars online in the sizes she wants and then staples the pictures to the framing bars. Her largest photo she has printed is of a wine label taken in Venice, Italy on the Grand Canal. It is approximately 46 inches by 70 inches.

Ms. Harrell’s larger pictures are priced around $175 with her smaller work at about $75. She has approximately 50 pictures framed and prefers to take still photos instead of portraits.

“I don’t do a lot of portraits because photographing people is hard and I don’t do it very well,” she said.

Each photo holds a special meaning for her and takes her to the exact location of the photo shoot. One of Ms. Harrell’s favorite places is Machu Picchu in Peru.

“I remember the exact place, what the weather was like, what I was thinking, who I was talking to. Most of the time the memories are happy ones,” said Ms. Harrell. “It’s like walking back in time and seeing mountains and clouds and stars that look newly created. It’s the strangeness of standing next to people from another country who don’t speak the same language, but we have the same expressions of awe and wonder on our faces. I’m more of a storyteller than I am a photographer.”