About Stuart Wells

Before February 2009 if you gave me an SLR and asked me to take your picture, I would have looked at you with a blank expression on my face and asked you what button to push. The only camera I could use at the time was a standard point and shoot, several people had tried to show me how to use a SLR, but it was hopeless! I just wanted to point and shoot, that was good enough for me…… So I thought!

Whilst floating around in the Red Sea, in awe of the amazing marine life swimming around me, I realised my whole life all 30 years of them at the time that I’d loved wildlife, but like most city slickers only experienced this through TV documentaries or local Zoo’s! Suddenly it dawned on me, “I’m actually in the wild here”. On this trip I had upgraded my trusty point and shoot to a fancy underwater point and shoot, before I knew it I had used all my film in my camera and pestered my wife to get more from the scuba shop. Five cameras later you could say I was hooked!

The pictures I took were rubbish, but for me that didn’t matter, it had opened my eye up to what was possible, seeing animals and marine life in the wild was not just confined to a dream. It’s possible for us all to see, just stop and look around we are surrounded by beauty and life, we just don’t appreciate it enough to see it. For me the trip to Egypt changed the way I see things, it ignited a passion for photography and making images of nature for all to see.