As we wander around with our cameras round our necks or you’re your shoulders or in a bag, though most prominently when it’s on display, we find, or certainly I do; that just by simply carrying a camera, it’s like you’ve got a magnet to other photographers with cameras who will smile and strike up a conversation. We carry with us this silent attractor which allows us to start conversations with anyone and more particularly with people who have an interest in photography or our fellow photographers’.
A Long Walk
I think it’s a lovely thing that we carry this symbol around with us that attracts other people in to have conversations that leads who knows where. Just last week I was doing a photography shoot in a coastal town for overlays for the meditations on Healing with Photography video courses. It was a beautiful sunny cold day, those lovely winter days that you get. I was busy taking pictures and wherever I looked in this pretty and very much deserted town of tourists, people on the pier turned smiled and looked to speak, say hello and pass the time of day. Read More→
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.
