Marilyn has had a camera since her teens, bought an SLR with her first Christmas bonus, and moved to digital, with Photoshop, in 2000.
She joined the Sealed Knot Photo Team (a voluntary post) almost by chance having visited the Old Basing re-enactment in 2008, and re-enactment photography formed a big part of her photographic portfolio for many years. She gained a Fellowship with the Irish Federation of Photography in 2022 with 20 English Civil War re-enactment images.
People photography in general has also been a strong part of her photographic life, and in 2016 she started taking photographs of the Steampunk community, publishing a photobook ‘Steampunks meet the War of the Worlds’.
In 2018 she went to Papua New Guinea for the cultural festivals, and after two more trips, she put together a panel of 21 images for a successful Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2022 entitled the Disappearing Tribes of Papua New Guinea.
She has always enjoyed photographing wildlife of all kinds, particularly African animals and birds, and more recently North and South American hummingbirds. Marilyn has also photographed attractive events such as the Calgary Stampede, Mexico’s Day of the Dead and Venice’s Carnivale.
Marilyn’s current project is to learn how to transform some of her photographs into multi-media art pieces.