Roxy Whalley

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Roxy was born in the small town of Macclesfield, in Cheshire, England. When she was a child, during the summer months and often in the winter, her parents would take her brother and Roxy camping and exploring. Roxy loved the British countryside, and especially the mountains in Wales and Scotland. Her family also did a lot of hiking and she spent much of her childhood outdoors. As Roxy approached her teen years her longing for a wilder, more rugged environment grew stronger. When she reached her twenties, Roxy could no longer ignore the longing to travel and explore. With her new-found independence and freedom, she hopped on a plane to America at the first opportunity, and arrived here with $1,000.00 and two suitcases.

Twenty-five years later, not much has changed. Although everything Roxy owns will no longer fit into two suitcases, it will all fit into the back of her car. She's always on the move, and has discovered it's much easier to move and explore when you own very little.

For the past fifteen years, Roxy's home base has been in Estes Park, Colorado. The Rocky Mountains are what drew her here, and they never disappoint. Although she's continued to travel and explore, and her boots rarely cross the threshold of one particular doorstep for long, she keeps returning to Estes Park. As her familiarity with the wilderness has grown, her love of it has also grown. Roxy now strives to capture the amazing beauty of nature both in images, and in writingand in writing. In this manner she hope to share the astounding beauty of the natural world with anyone who feels the need to escape from the daily hum, while she steps over her threshold into the great outdoors, and the American wilderness.

*By the way, there is something else Roxy strives for in her photography, and that is what she calls 'true images.' A true image is a picture that has been taken without having to remove any people or other objects out of it with photo editing software. This means that Roxy often sits for an hour or longer, waiting patiently for the opportunity to get a shot without a person in it. She feels that relying on editing software to make an image perfect takes the challenge out of photography. Roxy also finds that while she's sitting and waiting for that perfect moment, she often experiences some of the most wonderful moments with nature, and each of those moments is just as special as the taking of the picture.

Roxy hopes you will enjoy traveling with her through her photography, and perhaps grace your home with some of her images. Roxy has hiked hundreds, if not thousands of miles; fought off mosquitoes; dodged lightening storms; limped down trails with strained muscles or blisters (or both); faced icy blizzards; raging torrents; baking heat; bitter cold; and the howling wind; and that's just for starters. It is all worth it! Every time Roxy raises her camera to take a picture, she knows she's going to capture an intimate moment with nature, and be able to enjoy the image forever. And her hope of hopes is that somebody else will share that moment in nature through the images she brings back.

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