Mary Livingston – Our Sea, Our Backyard

Mary Livingston lives in Karori with her Japanese husband Yoshi and their wee Tibetan terrier called BB. Working as a marine biologist for 40 years or more has given her a big love of the ocean. Since taking up photography about 5 years ago she has turned towards her lifelong inspiration of the sea once more and set about trying to capture the tumult and intricacies of our wild Wellington coastline. “Our coast is pretty much iron bound and the towering cliffs provide a dramatic background, whatever the conditions. We can go from balmy silver-smooth waters to tumbling crests within an hour and this makes for exciting and challenging photography.”

She is going to present her current project “Our Sea: Our Backyard” and share insights and tips about photographing the coast and its waters that she has learned on the journey so far. Mary wants you to know that she is honoured to be invited and is really excited to present her work to you  “I am aware that many WPS members are interested in the sea and photograph it themselves in a multitude of interesting ways, and I get a lot of inspiration from what they do too”.