I am a freelance writer living abroad with my husband, two of our four children, a neurotic dog and a slightly more annoying Angolan cat. My interest in photography began as a young girl when my older brother loaned me the use of his camera as long as I paid for the film. I still experience that same excitement of opening an image (now on the computer rather than in an envelope) to see what I’ve truly captured. Photography is another venue for the creative side of my life. Like writing, it is a way to draw out and express those deeper emotions. It’s a chance to “feel” my way through the essence of an abstract world.
In 'Beyond the Ruins' I intentionally allowed the colour of the modern life to begin to seep and bleed onto the black and white of the ruins symbolising how the view of our present can colour our past. In 'Cemetery at Recogne' I was touched by the quiet solemnity of this WWII German cemetery as it contrasted with the grand commanding American monuments and cemeteries in the rest of the country. A humble reminder of victory and loss.
The past has a way of colouring our present day, and the attitudes and mores of today tend to seep and bleed onto our past, constantly changing how we view it. History is never set in stone - even in a simple burial marker. For what lies beneath is much more complex than that.