Driftwood Photography is a full service photography business established by award-winning photographer Carole Calkins Beckerer, a graduate of the famous Hallmark Institute of Photography.. 

Born and raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Carole graduated from Hartford Hospital School of Nursing (Hartford, Connecticut) as a registered nurse ...and then from Saint Joseph's College (Windham, Maine) with a BS in Hospital Administration.  During her years in nursing, she became certified in Geriatrics and worked as a Director of Nurses in Long Term Care.  She also became certified as an Advocate for children with learning disabilities and volunteered for many years with families in need of educational direction for their children.

While raising her three children, Carole pursued her interests in music, theorem painting and puppetry.  It was during a graduate course in Forensic Nursing, where she was training in crime scene photography, that she discovered that her interest in photography during her lifetime had become more important to her.  After winning an award in children's photography, she retired from nursing and enrolled in the famous Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turners Falls, Massachusetts (the most prestigious photography school on the East Coast).

Hallmark provided a two-year course compacted into ten months, where Carole also developed an interest in commercial photography as well as digital restoration.  After completion, Carole returned to the shoreline town of Milford, Connecticut where she opened Driftwood Photography and the Driftwood Gallery.