Portrait of St James Park at Dawn

When is St James Park at its most beautiful? As a visitor, I would say late afternoon when the sun is golden and the birds are relaxing for the evening. But as a photographer I believe it is dawn. So at 4.30am I hauled my lazy derrière out of bed, jumped in my little car […]

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A New Direction; Focusing on Lakes

swan caught in reflection of sun on Lough Neagh

The pandemic has been pretty challenging for me, and yet it came with the most enormous gift. I was working as a portrait photographer, but something wasn’t gelling. I just couldn’t seem to move forward with it. Then lockdown happened. It was very frightening indeed, because I was completely unable to work. But it gave […]

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Lough Beg at sunset

Clambering through a thicket I emerged into the most peaceful, golden scene imaginable. The view is of St Patrick’s Church and adjacent spire on Lough Beg, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Exhibition: Seen Through A Glass Darkly

The idea that what we see is not what is really there is a haunting one. Have we misunderstood everything? Do we see what others see? In this exhibition I explore the mystery of the limits on our perception and the idea that perfect beauty exceeds our visual capacity.   The book at the heart of […]

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The Rainbow Faith of Fairford

St Mary's Church, Fairford, Lady Chapel

I wasn’t that enthusiastic about visiting Fairford Church. I thought I ought to see it, as I knew it contained a full set of stained glass. But in pictures, the stained glass looked rather boringly didactic; endless rather featureless faces. Luckily, I happened to be passing on a trip to the Cotswolds. I was wrong. […]

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Harper’s Bazaar – Beauty in the Chaos

Words and picture by Fiona Campbell Hicks. Thank you to my beloved 2nd cousin by marriage, Sary, who was a Cambodian angel and hosted me when Raffles were overbooked, and guided me around the city. The amazing thing was that I didn’t know of her existence until I got to Cambodia!  

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Time to go Star Gazing…

A postscript: I’ve just been sent a press release for a star gazing package at La Samanna in the West Indies. http://www.lasamanna.com/web/omar/packages.jsp What a perfect experience for a honeymoon. La Samanna is one of the Orient Express hotels, so I think you can take it as read that it will be utterly fabulous, even though I haven’t […]

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