Autumn Fruits

I was having quite a tough time before going to Italy in September, I felt like I was being pulled in several directions at once and my mind felt very muddled.  With two photography holidays on the drawing board, hotels needing inspecting, doing photography courses locally and trying to work on Healing with Photography, it all felt too much, and that I needed to think about streamlining the whole business. I hoped that when I came back from Italy I would be a little calmer, more positive and with more direction.

Though trying to work out if the Cilento region of Italy was right to do a photography tour increased the feeling of being spread to thinly; not only was I arranging a photography tour in Sorrento for the May, I needed to recce an unknown area and get to know it in a very short time. And so I didn’t actually take the time to sit down and work through anything.

Before going away I picked up a cheap novel, you know the kind, one that didn’t matter if it got damaged whilst I was away as it wasn’t a book that I wanted to keep. Unfortunately I picked one up that wasn’t good for my mind set. 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

Autumn Colours

Just before going away to Italy I was talking to a relatively new friend about Healing with Photography; in essence just explaining what it is. You’ll know if you’ve read my previous articles that Healing with Photography is close to my heart and whilst I’ll listen to constructive advice, woe betide anyone who sticks their nose in where it isn’t asked for.

It turned out that I was talking to someone who didn’t understand the issues of mental health, as I guess many of us don’t, and they then tried to offer advice. And for a while there they had me re-thinking, questioning my ideas and looking for a different way to run it even though the professionals I’ve spoken to in mental health tell me that I’ve developed something that they really like.

And in many ways the re-think was a worthy detour, it gave me the opportunity to look again at Healing with Photography and make sure that it is on the right tracks to help the people most in need of it and to make sure that commercially it works too. I took this musing away with me to Italy and I was going to find time to sit down and work out the best way forward, whilst all the time I could feel the resentment towards this friend for having stuck their nose in to my business bubbling up in my mind. 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