ABOUT ME

Latest update:

Well, my loyal followers, my life continues to take new turns.  Not only have I started college, I am taking on a new business on 1 Jan 08. 

The course - Coastal Zone & Marine Environmental Studies.  Lots of juicy information to take in about the worlds I already love, that is underwater and Pembrokeshire.  The business - Celtic Images (www.celticimages.co.uk), a gallery selling locals photographer's work as well as my own and a framing shop on the side.  Life is busy, busy at the moment!  Fantastic !  As long as can keep all the balls in the air, it will go swimmingly .....

The whole story :

From my birth in Poole, a town on the south coast of the UK; to regularly staying with relatives in Cannes, France; to my brother's wedding in Dallas, Texas; to visiting my parents in school holidays when they worked in Southern Africa; I've always been a bit of a traveller.

New places, exotic places, capture the moment.  My brothers and I could not help but be influenced by the different and beautiful locations that we were taken to by our parents.  My mum took pictures all through our childhoods.  It is no wonder that we all progressed to having some kind of affinity with the lens.  We all take photos, one brother becoming a film cameraman, the other an antique camera dealer. 

And me ?  After many years of taking photos for myself, while working a regular office job, I have re-found my passion.  Leaving my old life behind, I have been travelling the world, taking pictures.

And to do this I have become a scuba instructor.  Which came first ? I don't know, but they have intertwined very nicely indeed, thank you !

Just before I left the UK on my last visit,  I started establishing myself in Wales taking photos of Pembrokeshire.   I only came to discover the area, or Wales for that matter, in 2001 when my mum and dad moved there.  What a glorious place !  For all my travelling, I haven't seen half of Great Britain.  It's all on my door step, waiting to be discovered, all over again by new eyes !  To discover how beautiful the skies and coast line is, check out my other site www.lisagabrielle.co.uk.

I have been in the Caribbean, Turks & Caicos Islands, for the last 7 months (June 06-Jan 07) working as a scuba instructor, taking a few pics when the job allowed.   Now I have returned to the UK, planning to buy a dry suit and get back in the water as fast as my cold tolerance will allow !!