Margaret Salisbury – known as the “Welsh Dragon Photographer” because of the Logo/signature I draw on the back of my Prints of a “Welsh Red Dragon”.

Distinctions/Awards:- MFIAP, Hon.FDPS ,FRPS ,FIPF, FSITTP, FSINWP, ZGPU, AWPF, APAGB

I first started photography Fifty years ago taking an Evening Course to learn how to use a Camrea to enable me to record, my then Pre-school aged children, growing up.

Joining a Photographic Society and entering competitions encouraged taking a range of subjects.  On visiting a local Horse Sale I captured an image in the pouring rain of a “Wild Welsh Mountain Ponies” crammed in a pen having been purchased to be sent abroad to be killed for Horse meat.  This picture was called “Misery” and it changed my approach, particularly to “people pictures” as I realised that photography was not just a “record of a person, place or event”” but could evoke an emotion and my love of “Pictorial Photography” was born.

I enjoy and believe in setting yourself a challenge or ambition such as Distinctions or Awards. I get great pleasure from taking, making images and printing my own images and really enjoy helping other photographers achieve their aim. To do this I believe you must have knowledge of the Criteria and standard required Distinctions. by gaining these Awards and/or Assessing as a Member of the Panels.  I have served over a long period of time on many different Assessment Panels including currently for the Disabled Photographers Society.  With the introduction of “Zoom” I was able enjoy giving presentations to Photographers all over the world but I also enjoy giving “in person” talks illustrated with Prints or PDIs.

In this set of “10 best” pictures they are not necessarily “my best technically” but, for me for, I am to tell a story, evoke a reaction and/or a Memory whether it be by the subjects themselves, their environment or one of the many different expressions, e.g. Happiness, Sadness and many more emotions.  In pictures of people, I believe a natural “pose” is important as are their hands.   I really enjoy “Environment Portraiture” in which can be seen in the subjects’ way of life which information can be portrayed in many ways not necessarily by showing the faces of the subjects themselves but even by just capturing their “Hands”.