GAZETTE Camera Club member Lynn Sampson is a keen photographer of nature and wildlife.
She lives in Riverside, Colchester, and is 53.
Why did you take up photography?
I have taken photos since I was a child, back in the days of 110 film cartridges.
I've always loved nature, so combining the two in recent years became a perfect hobby.
Why do you love taking pictures?
I love to capture those beautiful moments in time.
When I'm photographing, it's when I feel most relaxed and peaceful.
I love sharing my photos for others to see because many people have told me seeing them has helped them reconnect to nature.
Being immersed in nature is our natural state but when our lives get busy, we tend to disconnect from it.
I love to help people find their connection again.
Camera Club member Lynn Sampson
Where is your favourite place locally to take pictures? How about further afield?
I love to photograph Riverside, in Colchester, where I live. It's like an oasis in the middle of town so attracts lots of wildlife - foxes, muntjac deer, woodpeckers, dozens of bird species plus lots of butterflies and dragonflies in the summer.
Also Cymbeline Meadow, where I photographed a barn owl in February.
Further afield, I love the countryside around the Hedinghams, Maplesteads and Gestingthorpe and the nature reserves in Suffolk and Norfolk. I love photographing the wildlife abroad too. My last trip was to Kenya, in 2019.
What equipment do you use?
I use a Canon 5D Mark III with a variety of lenses.
What is your favourite picture you've ever taken?
My picture of a recent flower meadow at Moverons Farm, in Brightlingsea.
Why did you join our Camera Club?
Because I wanted to see other people's photographs and I really enjoy having another forum to show and share mine.
If you could photograph anyone or any place in the world, who/what would it be?
If I could've photographed any human being, it would have been Elvis. Now it's specific wildlife I would love to photograph - the wildlife of Australia is the top of my wish list - especially a blue fairy wren - and the wildlife of Sri Lanka and Costa Rica.
Anything else you think we should know about you?
I currently have a small exhibition of some of my photos displayed in the West Cliff Theatre, in Clacton, and I also have stalls at Mind, Body and Spirit festivals, Purple Feather Events and Angels MBS.
What advice would you give anyone who wants to get into photography?
Learn how to use your settings and get out there and practise!
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