The last few weeks I have been freeing myself from the office and heading off out with my camera to take the many spring scenes outside; though I am still waiting on some lively lamb photos. Though now I have a chair with me in the boot of the car, yet more equipment to add to my list, I know I can just pull up beside a field full of lambs and sit and wait.

Original

One image I wanted to capture is a replica of one I took last year; there wasn’t anything wrong with it I just wanted to take it with my new camera and have it as a RAW image. I waited patiently for the weather to be right, for the daffodils to come out and then suddenly our mid-March summer caught me out. I’d been out to check the scene a week or so earlier and the daffodils were tightly in bud and needed at least three weeks. Out came the sun, at a time when I was busy and couldn’t get away from my desk, and very nearly took my scene away from me by the time I got there.

Re-take

As I was knelt down on the ground, moving around to get me into the right position as close as possible to last year’s shot, I realised that actually, my original shot was far better and not just because I had left it almost too late to get there this time around.

It was the same thing when I was in Italy last October. For over five years I have wanted to go back and re-take some photos of the Faraglioni rocks on the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples. Again, purely to have it on a higher quality recording format. I had thought many times about going back and waiting for the perfect weather, sitting as long as I needed to get what I needed. I even took a paper copy of the image with me to help me line up as best I could.

When I got there I completely forgot exactly which path led down to the shoot position, I ended up walking to a harbour before realising the road was never going to wind around to get me into the same position as the photo I was carrying. When I eventually found the right path, I had completely forgotten that it was down many, many steps, and at the end of long day of walking and visiting old haunts it wasn’t quite what I wanted to find. Read More→

Ruth Bayley

Living in the beautiful rural county of Yorkshire it was perhaps natural for Ruth to have an affinity with the countryside and its wildlife. Creativity is Ruth’s driving force finding an outlet in television & radio she worked for many years as producer for BBC & ITV.

However a love of photography and for being surrounded by nature called her to go back to her photography training and bring pleasure and joy to people through her connection with our planet.

Staying in the moment when taking her images allows her to experience the natural magnificence unfolding before her eyes. It is this moment of mediation, of gratitude, that she evocatively conveys through her images.

www.healingwithphotography.co.uk

How was your weekend? Mine sent me the strangest of messages of how I can help others with Healing with Photography, yet it came with a twist. As the realisation dawned that I could help a specific group of people to achieve their ambitions in future years, instead of, as is currently happening, letting their head drops, so dropped the other shoe; it would be helping a sports team who are one of the main rivals of the team that I support.

Though as I saw the men, at the end of the game they’d just lost, looking dejected and in the mental zone of feeling that their season is over when there are still several games to go, my heart went out to them. As I was making dinner late that night, I heard a voice say you could help them and stop them ever getting into that place again of not believing in their abilities. That was when the division inside me started! When I see someone in pain I want to help as I presume we all do, yet helping them could be to the detriment of the team I have followed since I was a teenager.

I even went to bed thinking about what to do about this dilemma. I realised though as I dropped off to sleep that it doesn’t matter what my personal ego problems are, these are people that I know without a doubt that I can help, stopping them feeling worthless, powerless or defeated. And I know those feelings as my sports team have lost many things over the years; I understand that pain of a supporter and see all too palpably the pain of the player. Read More→

Ruth Bayley

Living in the beautiful rural county of Yorkshire it was perhaps natural for Ruth to have an affinity with the countryside and its wildlife. Creativity is Ruth’s driving force finding an outlet in television & radio she worked for many years as producer for BBC & ITV.

However a love of photography and for being surrounded by nature called her to go back to her photography training and bring pleasure and joy to people through her connection with our planet.

Staying in the moment when taking her images allows her to experience the natural magnificence unfolding before her eyes. It is this moment of mediation, of gratitude, that she evocatively conveys through her images.

www.healingwithphotography.co.uk