About

The Camera Points Both Ways is written by Gilly Walker, who came to photography late in life but has made up for that in spades with her passion and enthusiasm for it.  Although she teaches workshops on how to use a camera, she knows that having an ‘eye’ for a photo is just as important – maybe even more so, because it’s relatively easy to learn the technology, but much more difficult to develop creatively.

She’s a big fan of photography projects, and thinks they move you forward in a way that taking ‘one hit wonders’ never can do.  She has loads of ideas for these – far too many for her to use if she lived to a hundred and five – and so she’d like to put some of them out there so that others can help themselves.  She’s also a devil for internet surfing and comes across some wonderful things that she’d like to share with you.  And she’d like to show you some of her pictures, too.

Gilly would much rather be behind the camera than in front of it. She hates having her photo taken, but she thinks this one is a lot of fun - thanks to Rob for permission to use it.

Gilly was born and grew up in Scotland, has been living in South East England for the last 25 years and has just moved 300 miles north from there to the Wirral peninsula.  Sadly, her Scottish accent is all but gone.  She has managed to acquire a BSc and an MA in Philosophy, a preliminary teaching certificate, and assorted other pieces of paper in a variety of subjects, including an out-of-date First Aid certificate and an incomplete Access to Art & Design award.  She has worked as a hynotherapist, a Reiki healer and trainer, college IT tutor, a library assistant, a bookseller, a charity fundraiser, a marriage registrar, and many other things over the years.  She suffers from insatiable curiosity and wishes she could stuff seven lives into one.  She now teaches photography workshops, writes for the internet, develops new courses, and sells the odd print here and there.

She is very happily married to Geoff, whom she thinks must be the loveliest and most supportive man in the world, and they live near Chester, UK, with two cats (Gilly’s) and two rabbits (Geoff’s).  And for some reason she finds it much easier to write about herself in the third person.

She would be very interested to hear from you, especially if you have ideas about what you’d like to see on her blog, and she’s available for photographic hire or tuition on request.

You’ll find her website at: www.gillywalker.com………and yes, it’s the same address as this but without the hyphen.  Or you can just click on the tab at the top of the page.