Ann Chatwin

While travelling extensively, feasting on a variety of landscapes and colors, my love for nature continues to grow. I experience a strong presence while enjoying open spaces, mesmerizing waves, and windswept trees. To my delight, I feel a similar – yet quieter – presence in webs catching raindrops, and flowers blowing, which seem to sing. Beauty’s diversity is endless like the waves. I marvel at this beauty and express the need to cherish and preserve the Sacred Earth.

We can easily pass by the splendor, while distractions, like car horns honking, people running for the bus, and hectic schedules, relentlessly intrude. My gift is to stop and capture surprises. My camera is the tool. A sense of mystery propels me, opening doors to magic, joy, and limitless possibilities.

Close-up photography is an adventure in seeing: details appear, which remain unnoticed in a larger view. While focussing the lens on gems like dewdrops on grass blades, I strip away unnecessary details to reveal the essence of what excites me. Reveling in the natural world awakens me to the joy of being alive.

I also enjoy spontaneously capturing people’s expressions in day to day life. There is such diversity and yet unity – we all belong to the same Mystery.

— Ann Chatwin
August 1999