Yesterday I looked at this again and I thought what does it say about me? It really only says what I am thinking instead of feeling. I want to use this blog to engage in a relationship with people who find my work and photography in general interesting.

Last week I spent the night on Skomer. I went to take pictures of Puffins and fell completely and utterly in love with the place. I've been before for a day trip but at night partly because they work on solar power there is a quietness (except for the birds returning from sea!!!) that brings immediate rest. I lay upstairs in The Chapel last night listening and realized what I could hear was this constant buzz of low sound - I worked out eventually that it is the electrical machines running. It is quiet but always there and on Skomer it was not.

Over one night I felt I had been away for weeks - came back feeling so relaxed. And the puffins - well they are just amazing. There lovely little bodies and their way of being together is wonderful. What I hated was the predatory gulls swooping down and stealing the hard won sand eels from the puffins as they landed. They are so tiny and they try so hard to feed their young yet when they land they wait ages before going to their undergroud nests because if a gull is watching it will take not only the fish but the young pufins too. Spent hours just watching them.

Came away and joined Friends of Skokolm and Skomer see http://www.welshwildlife.org/ for details. Not sure I should be telling you that as part of me wants to selfishly keep the place as secret as possible! But if you go I hope you love it like I do.

Landscape Photography whether it is local to Pembrokeshire (my home county see www.heatherbennettphotography.co.uk ) or it covers far away places like Morocco, Cuba and Peru or fantasies like the Venice Carnival and the Provence Lavender Trail can be both beautiful and evocative. In its best form it inspires people to feel what the photogapher felt through the lense and transcends the barriers between a 'snap' and a fully considered picture. Like good art it speaks to the heart. It can contain not only a snese of place but as people often appear within it gives a glimpse of other and indeed our own cultures: through that we can begin to understand and connected with one another.

What does photography mean to you? What part does it play in your life?