My wake-up CALL
‘Volunteering in Zimbabwe was my “eureka” moment’
Julie Lovegrove, 61, is a professional photographer with a passion for wildlife, fascinating places and landscapes. She leads photographic holidays (juliesadventures.co.uk), lives in North Somerset and has three grown-up children.
I didn’t ever know what I wanted to be when I grew up so, for pretty much all my adult life, I’ve fallen into jobs, including admin and bookkeeping, which have mostly been fine, but that’s all.
I’d always had a hankering to travel to exotic and far-flung places, and ‘do something’ with animals. I used to dream of being brave and adventurous like Joy Adamson, Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey.
The film Born Free had grabbed my imagination as a young teen. Ever since then, I’d wanted to go to Africa and sit on the rock where Elsa the lioness sits with her cubs at the end of the film.
About 20 years ago, my then husband was a professional photographer and I began going along to weddings with him as his assistant. One day, he handed me a spare camera and told
