Anna is the eldest of three high-spirited, intelligent women brought up by two well-read medical doctors, who encouraged a life of education and adventure from day one. She inherited her parents’ passion for discovery, her father's sporting stamina and her mother’s love of fine art and nature.
Anna’s father bought her first camera for her 9th Birthday, and since then she has embraced her upbringing and shared her love of life through her award-winning photography. She is a warm, friendly person who loves to be around people and wildlife. She has an eye for an image and the energy and enthusiasm to journey to remote destinations all over the world.
A Mechanical Engineering degree from Edinburgh University extended her rounded education and flair for languages, and brought her north to a life in Scotland. Work as a technical journalist in London followed, where she was poached by a car manufacturer to work in public relations in Germany.
This led to a gritty, but extremely enjoyable 5-year period working offshore in Oil & Gas seismic navigation. She dedicated her six months’ leave from the North Sea each year to travelling and photography. Back on the beach Anna briefly became a newspaper reporter in Aberdeen, until her life’s subtext of photography and wild places expanded and blossomed.Anna began a very successful career as a social photographer, exhibiting a talent for capturing an event or individual with stylish reportage and portrait photography. This experience has proved invaluable in the corporate arena where people skills and the ability to work quickly and under pressure are vital.
She is a member of the Master Photographers' Association (MPA) and has won 30 awards from the MPA Scotland and Fujifilm for commercial, portrait, wildlife and wedding photography. She continues to write, mainly for the photographic press, and has also written a book on nude photography: "Camera Craft – Nudes" for AVA Publishing.
Anna currently lives in Edinburgh, with homes in Stavanger, Norway, and Kicking Horse in the Canadian Rockies.Visit Kicking Horse here
www.the-silver-fox.com.
In the last few years her significant talents as a commercial and wildlife photographer have emerged.
In 2007 she was thrilled to win an award in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, the most prestigious wildlife photography competition in the world. Visitors to the exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London and website voted her exquisite picture of an Arctic fox no 1!
View the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year website here
Anna has undergone many forms of survival training and maintains the requisite qualifications for oil & gas offshore work. In 2007 she spent many weeks offshore taking photographs on board the Scottish Fisheries Research vessel, and on a Norwegian ROV survey vessel doing underwater 3D photogrammetry. She visited a Total oil platform, and Shell sent her to Holland to photograph North Sea installations from a helicopter.
In spring 2009 Edinburgh-based oil company Melrose Resources sent her to Egypt to photograph the Nile Delta fields and facilities. This was a very exciting trip which began in Cairo - with time for Tutankhamun as well as the modern day paraphernalia of Egypt’s black gold. She photographed palm trees next to oil rigs, container ships floating through the desert down the Suez Canal, and oilfield facilities where the muezzin regularly call the boilersuited workers to prayer.
View the portfolio here
Her photography has taken her to destinations including Scandinavia, the Alps, Svalbard, Alaska, Northern Canada, the Rockies, Patagonia, Costa Rica, South America, Australia, Thailand, East Africa, India, Azerbaijan and the Caucasus to name a few.
Anna loves nothing better than a challenge. She is an expert skier and throughout her life has enjoyed many adventure sports including parachuting, para-gliding, diving, hiking, cycling, adventure racing, running and mushing with huskies in the arctic.
Seen through her partner’s eyes, Anna has the spirit and courage reminiscent of the great Edwardian explorers. But beyond this she has an eye that captures and transmits the vibrancy and significance of living on Earth. She can contrast the power of man-made industry with the fragility of the natural world.
As organisations become increasingly aware of their social and environmental responsibilities Anna is helping many of them to focus and communicate their involvement in these issues. And her passion and patience for wildlife photography has brought the beauty of the wilderness into many of our homes.
