I love this portrait image captured by my amazing friend Jennifer Noble at Denmark WA. I don’t have many photos of me and this one just captures who I am brilliantly. Xxx

Huge welcome to our photography and storytelling camp. For a while now I have wanted to run little photography workshops to share what I have learnt on my photographic and writing journey over the past decade but also, and more importantly to create a forum for connection.  Connection to self, connection to others, connection to life, connection to nature and connection to the earth. Photography has helped me enormously, to create a sense of belonging, to navigate the difficult times, to appreciate the bigger picture and to see light and beauty wherever I am, to see it within myself, to see it in others and to see it in the wider world. 

Photography and storytelling go hand in hand. To create a beautiful image you need ideas, thought, practice, knowledge, experience, skill and often luck. These are also ingredients for a story along with awareness of your inner world and an understanding of broader contextual elements such as environment, ecology, history and science. It takes practice, patience and time to weave these elements together with words but like anything, skill develops with consistent effort. Very often language is not enough, but somehow with a good weave and quality ingredients, words begin to shimmer and the magic speaks for itself. 

I am not a technical person and my trips will not be about creating perfect images or stories but rather to expand on the meaning and connection photography and writing can bring to your life. It will be a different experience for everyone. Each trip brings together individuals with unique backgrounds, life experience, skill, knowledge and wisdom. There will be different perceptions, strengths, ideals, priorities, beliefs and obstacles. It is in the difference that wisdom dances. There is so much we can learn from each other with the space between always an opportunity to grow, to deepen understanding of self and to lift others up with kindness and humour.