I’m Brook and welcome to my website, a place to share my photography and writing. I am based in Wales and lucky enough to have two wonderful jobs, working as a gardener and photographer. My love of photography started when I was studying art at GCSE and continued into my A-Level study when I focused on film photography; spending hours upon hours (and all my lunch breaks) in the dark room, mostly alone! Back then film wasn’t as popular as it is today! Since then I have taught myself everything I know by watching videos, reading books and a-lot of trail and error.
I have loved to be outdoors for as long as I can remember. Although I wasn’t so much into outdoor activities when I was younger, I used to spend much of my time pottering around the garden barefoot studying flowers and insects. Now my connection to the outdoors has evolved into a love of walking, camping, van life and trying to protect the wild. I try to travel and spend my time outdoors in a slow way, taking in the details, it’s not so much about the destination for me but the journey.
Photography has become a big part of my time outside, capturing moments that tell a story. My muse is light; the first light, the last light, light through the trees and light on water. I hope I can transport you to the places I have visited through my images.
Head to my gallery or about page to learn more about me and my journey with photography.
Photo - Light • Graph - Drawing
I love the meaning of the word photography - to draw with light, and that is exactly what I have a passion for; to capture the light however and wherever I can. Light is what inspires me most - the first light, the last light, dappled light through trees, light on water; I find it mesmerising how it can change a landscape so dramatically and make quite an ordinary scene, extraordinary.
With the light I try to tell a story, capture moments of life be they small and insignificant or awe inspiring. I want to transport you to these moments caught in time.
Scroll through my photos below or click on the gallery to see more and read a bit about my journey in photography
Welcome to my slow life outdoors! Here I share my adventures big and small ~ camping, walking and musings from trying to live a slower and more sustainable life outdoors
Told through words and photos
“there is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more.”
— LORD BYRON
