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I’m Clare Gadsby and I started taking pictures in 2015, at which point I couldn’t tell an f-stop from a shutter speed from a pixel. Two adult education courses and countless numbers of photographs later, I like nothing more than to be out shooting landscapes, flowers and abstracts, setting up still-lifes in my studio, and creating conceptual images.

 

I was a member of the 365 Project for six years (more on that here), sharing a photograph with a supportive and encouraging online community every day, and this made me take my camera with me everywhere and start to notice that there were opportunities for images in the most unlikely places. It felt as though until I picked up a camera I must have spent my life  walking around with my eyes not really open, as I started to see lines, textures, patterns, shapes and colour wherever I went. And gradually I realised that, maybe before all of those elements, I see the light, shimmering through trees, midday harsh brightness blasting onto flowers in the garden, shadows, reflections, silhouettes, and the golden and then blue light as the sun fades.

 

I shoot with an Olympus OMD EM5Mkii and a Fuji X-E3. I have a number of Lensbaby lenses which have enhanced my creativity and really developed my photography. Coming to love Photoshop has opened up conceptual photography, which has become a passion.

 

I enjoy taking portraits, preferably candid images of people at work or at play, but I can also use my studio and studio lights for more formal shots.