MARGARET

Raised in a an artistic family, I was the oddball, reading Shots Without Guns in elementary school and studying the Periodic Table at a young age. But I grew up surrounded by art, wandering the museums from an early age, had a camera (film) in hand when I was young, turned our apartment bathroom into a darkroom in my teens and even won a photography award at age 14. School and life then took me down other roads. But art is deep in the soul, everyone’s soul. I rediscovered photography in 2017 and taught myself the ways of cameras, lenses, software-all changed over the years.

Photography is an absolute passion; a window on the world through my eyes and others. It is hard to express the feeling of lying on the ground shooting upwards into an elephant’s eyes, or the glory of a brilliant field of canola dappled with shadows of sun and clouds. Within each photo is a meaning unique to each individual. Is photography truth? The truth is how you see it.

I love photographing landscapes and flowers, the mystery of night, a person’s expression. I look for a feeling whether it is a person or inanimate subject, a feeling that reaches into the viewer and sometimes even changes them. I hope you enjoy my photographs!

Margaret Block West
margaret@margaretwestphotography.com