About Diana
My interest in photography began many years ago when film and darkrooms were the order of the day and my passion was backpacking in Europe. I wanted to remember those exciting days, people, places and events. They were formative years thanks mainly to the extraordinary volume of art consumed when travelling. It's such a good way to gain some understanding of a culture and its history. My great surprise was how deeply I could be moved by an image and how much pleasure I found in its consumption. It was here that my love of pictures began, with paintings. Portraiture cast quite a spell; so many artists, from Caravaggio to the Pre-Raphaelites, were a revelation.
A career in the IT industry meant permanently settling, and with that came another interest. I’d always been an animal lover, and became aware of the strains our modern world put on wildlife. Our first garden in the late eighties spurred me into reading an excellent book on those concerns and what could be achieved in trying to address them by individual gardeners ('How To Make A Wildlife Garden' by Chris Baines, still available and highly recommended). We were soon wildlife gardeners, digging ponds and planting as many native plants as possible, together with anything else useful to our garden inhabitants as food or lodging. It was probably inevitable that I'd start photographing wildlife as our gardens grew into rich and fascinating environments.
Since leaving the IT industry I've gained a BA (Hons) in Humanities, strengthening my long love of the arts which I now feed through the challenges of photography. Portraiture stayed with me (even if many of my subjects are rather small!) and, along with it, mandatory dips into natural science as, once in possession of a macro lens, the largely invisible and mysterious world of the small needs context. A macro lens opens the eyes to a world of wondrous eccentricity, strange beauty and the terrible violence of survival. Fascinating, and with an endless cast of characters waiting to reveal their complexity, it is hard to resist.
While my fauna and macro nature images are mostly accurate records, this is not often true of my land and seascapes which I like to process, or increasingly take, creatively.
I hope you find something here that gives you pleasure in the viewing!
A career in the IT industry meant permanently settling, and with that came another interest. I’d always been an animal lover, and became aware of the strains our modern world put on wildlife. Our first garden in the late eighties spurred me into reading an excellent book on those concerns and what could be achieved in trying to address them by individual gardeners ('How To Make A Wildlife Garden' by Chris Baines, still available and highly recommended). We were soon wildlife gardeners, digging ponds and planting as many native plants as possible, together with anything else useful to our garden inhabitants as food or lodging. It was probably inevitable that I'd start photographing wildlife as our gardens grew into rich and fascinating environments.
Since leaving the IT industry I've gained a BA (Hons) in Humanities, strengthening my long love of the arts which I now feed through the challenges of photography. Portraiture stayed with me (even if many of my subjects are rather small!) and, along with it, mandatory dips into natural science as, once in possession of a macro lens, the largely invisible and mysterious world of the small needs context. A macro lens opens the eyes to a world of wondrous eccentricity, strange beauty and the terrible violence of survival. Fascinating, and with an endless cast of characters waiting to reveal their complexity, it is hard to resist.
While my fauna and macro nature images are mostly accurate records, this is not often true of my land and seascapes which I like to process, or increasingly take, creatively.
I hope you find something here that gives you pleasure in the viewing!