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About me

Suzy Braye with her camera

Image by Colin Usher https://www.colinusher.com/ 

I started my photographic journey with a Brownie box camera - I remember its feel in the hand and the satisfying click of the shutter. The photographs I took are few in number now but rich in childhood memories of the people and places I knew. Since then I’ve always made photographic records of my travels, my children’s early lives, my mountains, my memorable moments, and have loved discovering the work of great photographers. But my working life has had more to do with words than images, and it’s only in recent years that I’ve returned to my early hobby and allowed my camera to take me somewhere that could be called ‘photography’.  

Connecting this with my love of mountains, dales, woodland, lakes and seashore has been a natural development, leading me to landscape photography as the genre I love the most. It is connection with the landscape that makes me pick up my camera, and that can be driven by emotion, mood, memory or sometimes simply the breathtaking visual impact of what I see. My intention is always to show what has captivated my attention, and my appreciation of the experience. In doing so, I enjoy pushing the boundaries, using intentional camera movement and multiple exposure, both of which I love for the freedom they give to express impression or mood, with a fluid, dreamlike quality. I do find constant joy in the land that surrounds me; it invites me on journeys of exploration and discovery, with my camera at hand to help me interpret what I see and experience. And I continue to learn, with grateful thanks to those who help me on this journey through tuition, guidance, feedback and companionship. 

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