Your coaches
Two caring coaches, alongside you
Focused Eye is led by two working fine-art photographers, Diane Bentley Raymond in San Francisco and Sarah Lyons Glabman in Arizona, offering thoughtful guidance, encouragement, and perspectives drawn from their individual approaches to photography.
Diane Bentley Raymond
Co-founder and coach · San Francisco, California
Diane Bentley Raymond is a San Francisco architectural and fine art photographer whose work explores the conversation between light and our world. Her successful commercial practice includes high-profile clients such as Grosvenor, JLL, Paramount Group, and Swinerton, photographing distinctive architecture and spaces across the construction, hospitality, and commercial markets.
Her photography has appeared in magazines and publications worldwide and has been featured repeatedly by Sony. Her images appear on the cover and extensively throughout Trope Publishing’s Above and Across San Francisco, carried by the SFMOMA Museum Store. A second Trope San Francisco book, forthcoming in 2027, also features a selection of her work.
Through her online gallery, Diane Bentley Raymond Art, she presents fine art photographs shaped by extraordinary light, thoughtful composition, and an instinct for finding unexpected perspectives. From intimate landscapes to expansive aerial views, her photographs reflect a patient, purposeful approach to seeing.
Diane brings that same attention and care to Focused Eye. Her coaching connects the practical choices behind a photograph with the artistic intention that gives it meaning. With warmth and encouragement, she helps women recognize what draws their eye, understand how light shapes a scene, and make photographs that express their own vision. Her goal is for each participant to leave with greater confidence, a clearer creative direction, and renewed enjoyment in photography.
From Diane's gallery
Sarah Lyons Glabman
Co-founder and coach · Arizona
Sarah has spent nearly two decades behind the camera and holds the Master of Photography degree. For most of that time she was known for photographing people in fitness, fashion and editorial work: hundreds of magazine covers, and a magazine of her own, BodyScape, which she founded and published.
In 2024 a journey through South Africa, Botswana and Namibia changed everything. Standing in those landscapes, she realized her camera was leading her somewhere new. Today she creates fine-art landscape and wildlife photography through SLG.Art, from gale-force winds on the coast of Iceland to remote Alaskan landscapes seen from her drone.
Based in Arizona, she knows the light of the Southwest by heart, from Sedona’s red rock to the slot canyons around Lake Powell.
Her advice to every student: give yourself permission to be bad at something before you become good at it. Ask the questions, take the class, try the thing that intimidates you, and never stop being a student. She still hasn’t.
From Sarah's gallery
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