Mary Ann Halpin is a photographer, speaker and workshop facilitator. Mary Ann has created two photography books, most recently, “Fearless Women: Midlife Portraits” which contains compelling black and white portraits of women holding swords who have dared to approach aging with passion and fearlessness.

As author/photographer of her first book, “Pregnant Goddesshood: A Celebration of Life”, Mary Ann garnered national attention for her book’s powerful images of pregnant women as radiant and beautiful, embracing their bodies and celebrating in photographs and essays. Images from “Pregnant Goddesshood” have also been featured in LIFE Magazine, on The View, Inside Edition, and Extra!

For the past eight years, Mary Ann has led creative and spiritual-renewal women’s retreats in the mountains outside of Los Angeles. With her husband, studio manager, Joe Croyle, they divide their time between their studio in Los Angeles and their Pine Mountain home.