Playing to win
When did you start taking pictures?
In May 2014 I bought my first DSLR. I had a point and shoot, which I had taken on safari a couple of years earlier. I had an amazing time, but was very frustrated because everyone else kept pushing their much bigger lenses in front of me to get their photos. That was what made me realise I really wanted to learn about photography and get it right.
It took me another couple of years before I actually bought one, though, and it wasn’t until I’d saved up to go on another safari that I took the plunge, getting a Canon EOS-1D X, which I absolutely adore. I spent the next month out in the garden photographing anything that moved before going to Kenya.
After that first safari, were you hooked?
Totally. It meant that the rest of my waking hours were spent making sure my businessof trees on the farm to try to compensate! But I’m glad I’ve seen everything I have over the past few years. Sometimes my husband comes with me on the trips, but we have an organic farm so he can’t get away often.
