Joan Wyers Cole is an award-winning free-lance photographer and teacher. She has published her work in a variety of local and regional publications and has shown her work in galleries and businesses in the Birmingham area. Since 1986 she has owned and operated Joan Wyers Cole Photography, where in addition to photography she specializes in custom printing, hand-coloring of photographs, and restoration of old photographs. She regularly teaches a variety of courses in Samford After Sundown.