About me

Welcome to my blog. I am a passionate wildflower and travel photographer who lives in the beautiful south west corner of Western Australia. I also enjoy exploring many facets of art practice, including botanical-eco-printing with leaves onto fabric and paper.  

I am also a Freelance Journalist. My published work specialises in Western Australian travel articles and stories about inspiring everyday people. 

In 2024 my blog was recognised by the Australian National Library as been worthy of preserving onto their on-line data base, Trove, as it was deemed a worthy electronic publication of lasting cultural value, about Western Australia, written by an WA author, and on a subject of social, political, cultural, religious, scientific or economic significance and relevance to WA. This was a wonderful accolade for my work.

Through my blog I am seeking to preserve images and memories of the beautiful world in which we live and the people in it. And in many ways it is my journal of everyday life.

To visit other pages, please click on the tabs above, under the index you can see my posts under various topic headings, or go to my Blog Archive on the side bar. Please feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of any of my posts. I value your messages and look forward to hearing from you.
 

As well as Freelance Journalism and photography I do botanical eco-printing on paper and cloth, and cyanotype sun prints. 

I completed a Higher Diploma of Advanced Freelance Journalism with the Australian College of Journalism and started writing freelance in 2001

I have had articles and images published in Hema Maps, Caravan World, Australian Coast & Country, Go Camping Australia, On The Road, Caravan and Motor Home on Tour, Wildflower Country, Flourish, Perth Vita, Australian Vital, Australian Photography, Western Angler, Homes and Living, Great Walks magazine, Bibbulmun Track News, Bushwalking WA, RRR Network News (for rural, remote and regional women in Western Australia), South Culture magazine and Bunbury's South Western Times and Bunbury Herald newspapers. 

I completed the WA Holiday Specialist Training Programme run by Tourism Western Australia and attended several Summer School photography courses at University of Western Australia Extension, and a Bunbury TAFE Digital Photography course. I have completed several on line photography courses, and contribute to Digital Photography School, Flickr, and Getty Images. 

I was awarded Photographer of the Year at the Photography Group of Bunbury in 2018, and runner up in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021.  In 2018 I was awarded the "emerging artist" award for a botanical eco-print at the Dardanup Art Spectacular. 

In 2020 I was awarded second place - photography - at the South West Virtual Arts Spectacular. 

In 2021 I was awarded photography first prize at the Dardanup Art Spectacular and the Manjimup Fungi Photo Competition. 

In 2024 I was awarded first prize in the photography reflections theme at the Dardanup Art Spectacular. 

I am a member of the Photography Group of Bunbury, The WA Photographic Federation, South Side Quills and the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA. 

I enjoy photographing our magnificent country and seek to continually improve. If you like my work, and would like to buy a print, greeting card, or commission me for some work, please go to my "contact me" tab.

Thank you for visiting my blog and helping me "step into the light". I hope you enjoy my writing and photography.