Robert Llewellyn (born December 29, 1945) is an American photographer whose images have served as the basis for numerous books and exhibits.

[16] She attended the State Normal School for Women at Harrisonburg — which later became James Madison University — graduating in 1940[17] with a focus in studio arts.

Washington, The Capital — published with 89 photographs by Llewellyn through Thomasson-Grant, Inc. in 1981 – became, leatherbound with a gold-leaf presidential seal, the White House gift to visiting dignitaries.

[2] In this celebrated work Llewellyn concentrates on "the city as monuments, on what an explorer of some future time might find in a deserted Washington."

He captures the mist rising up from the Potomac River, the sun coming up on the Jefferson Memorial, and neighborhoods like Georgetown.

[21] Three thousand copies of the book were also accepted on behalf of the U.S. State Department to be used as an official gift to foreign dignitaries.

Five major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch and Martin Marietta, used the book as a gift to visitors to the capital city.

The beauty of the natural setting, the city's sensuous qualities of sculpture and architecture and its unabashed grandeur are all here in fresh and surprising images.It is a collection of exquisite, formal color photographs of various landmarks and scenes showing the city as a paradise on the Potomac, devoid of people, plane crashes or urban problems.

[24]In 2004, Llewellyn met the garden columnist of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Nancy Ross Hugo, who was considering creating a book about Virginia trees.

Their collaboration would result in three publications, the "inaugural project" being a four-year effort to document one hundred of Virginia's "largest, oldest, most historic, beautiful and beloved trees."

This wealth of recommendations required project co-coordinator Dr. Jeffrey Kirwan, a Virginia Tech Emeritus Professor and Extension Specialist, to log 20,000 miles traveling to visit each tree to whittle down the nominees to the one hundred included in the book.

The latter, nicknamed "Big Mama" — at 123 feet tall the largest tree in Virginia – was over a thousand years old, surviving until 2008 in a swamp 80 miles southeast of Richmond.

In traveling just an eighth of an inch the camera captures two dozen frames, which the computer then assembles into a composite picture of "the sharpest areas of each image".

The photographic work considers the forest as "a complex, interconnected ecosystem filled with plants, birds, mammals, insects, and fungi," making for a visual journey that immerses the reader "deep into the woods."

[19]Llewellyn's 300+ "awe-inspiring photographs" accompany "lyrical essays from Joan Maloof detailing the science behind the wonder."

[Here] he has teamed up with Joan Maloof, the founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, to peer into the mystery and magic of our woodlands.

Llewellyn combines his knowledge of engineering and contemporary technology to create images in full focus with an alternative method he developed[5] that provides for an unlimited depth of field.

I would put the seeds on a glowing light table and do a series of photographs at different focus points from top to bottom, overlapping the sharp parts.

[32] To capture wide landscapes, he takes multiple panoramic images with a 14mm lens, then "stitches" the shots together into a single panorama.

Llewellyn's operated as a professional photographer for most of four decades out of his "house-cum-studio" overlooking the Rivanna River in Earlysville, Virginia just outside Charlottesville.

As an active member of First Baptist Church in South Boston, she served as a deacon and taught Sunday school for many years.