Anna’s mechanical engineering degree and exacting work offshore on seismic survey vessels in the North Sea for Schlumberger has evolved into a talent for creative, insightful portrayal of industrial and commercial subjects. Anna undertakes a wide range of photoshoots for annual reports, advertising campaigns and PR. She particularly enjoys the drama of the offshore environment and is committed to safe working practices. Her offshore survival certificate - Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency (BOSIET) and the OLF European module for Norway - and medical are current. In 2007 she spent a month on board the "Edda Fonn", a Norwegian ROV survey vessel doing underwater photogrammetry and 3D video for Statoil. She also spent time on a Total oil platform in the North Sea, and Shell sent her to Holland to photograph Dutch installations and a crane barge from a helicopter. Schlumberger commissioned her to photograph the sea trials of a new seismic ship "Western Spirit". She works from bases in Edinburgh, Scotland and in Stavanger, Norway. Anna also works in Aberdeen on a frequent basis as she was re-awarded the Scottish Executive contract for the Fisheries Research Services. This contract includes offshore photography on the fisheries research vessel "Scotia", and work in the offices and laboratories around Scotland. She values her early training as a journalist which has enabled her to combine a passion for words and photo-journalism. She has produced features for photography magazines including "Professional Photographer" and for skiing magazines such as "Daily Mail Ski and Snowboard". She was a regular feature writer and one of the "experts" answering readers' questions in the UK's leading photography monthly: "Practical Photography" for several years. This led to a commission to write a book on nude photography: "Camera Craft – Nudes", published by AVA. She has won over 30 awards from the Master Photographers’ Association (Scotland). In March 2007 she was delighted to win the trophy for the "Open" award which is for commercial/industrial/PR/art&illustrative photography. She has won this prestigious award no less than three times in the last five years……..And in March 2008 she was named "Monochrome Photographer of the Year". In 2007 she was honoured with an award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, the most prestigious wildlife photography competition in the world. The competition attracted 32,000 entries from photographers worldwide. Visitors to the exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London and website, have voted her captivating picture of an Arctic fox into first place – see "Visitor’s choice"! View the image here She is most well known for images involving people, where she quickly puts them at ease, captures their personalities, and brings out the best in them. Often her subjects are busy people so the work has to be carried out quickly, but sensitively. Although she only photographs a couple of weddings each year, she was awarded "Reportage wedding photographer of the Year 2007" by the MPA Scotland! She strives for strong images with pleasing composition and imaginative use of colour. She wants her images to contain a sense of interruption. Each image should freeze the subject’s energy, capturing the moment at precisely the right millisecond. Her images embody the atmosphere of what’s gone before, and ignite an interest in what’s about to happen. She has embraced digital photography wholeheartedly and is thrilled with the quality of her top pro cameras like the Canon EOS 1DS Mark II. A perfectionist, she does her own printing so she can be in complete charge of the entire photography process for optimum quality control.