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    Ellen MEADS

    Sep 17, 2020 4 minutes

    HOW DID YOU GET STARTED TAKING PHOTOS?

    I actually completed a Diploma in Professional Photographic Imaging way back in New Zealand in the early 2000s. Since that time I have had various ebbs and flows of psych, creativity and confidence. I dabbled in wedding and event photography, but I have always been drawn to a kind of documentary portrait photography style. After catching the climbing bug my focus became very… ah… one dimensional. I just wanted to climb, climb, climb, and photography pretty much went on the back burner.

    It wasn’t until a close friend went to study photography and Dave Brailey (my flatmate) was also enjoying a [photography] renaissance of a kind, I really got inspired again. I was also experiencing a

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