Interviewee

What is your favourite makeup?

I love Benefit makeup. I love California kissin’ for lips which has sparkles in it and tastes like toothpaste and makes my teeth shiny. I use benefit birthday suit for the base of my eyes and get figgy for colour. I also use strut which gives a smokey eye effect. I also love Benefits brow shaping kit which just adds a bit of colour to my eyebrows and shape, its great as it includes a tweezer and powder for filling in the gaps.




What products do you use for your hair?

I have very curly hair, mostly frizzy as my hair has changed in the last 7 years. I’ve discovered Kevin Murphy range which I got from my local salon. I use the motion lotion which I just scrunch in my hair and creates defining curls. Its expensive at £14.95. Then for treatments I am using an Intense Curing Mask by Schwartzkopf which has Goji berries in and is organic and it also smells gorgeous. I also have the shampoo. All these products are used weekly. I am lucky in that I never get greasy hair so am able to wash my hair once or twice a week as my hair is very thick.

What’s your favourite accessory at the moment?


I have a new mobile phone or gadget as I say. It’s the HTC Sense Desire from Virgin Media. It’s a touchpad phone and I use it on the go for Twitter, Facebook, Email. I am on a contract and these phones new or pay as you go are £399. I love it. I am feeling rather tech savvy at the moment.

What inspires you?


Many things , even just something very simple like a leaf dancing in the wind; other artists work or I just get an inkling. I portray my inspirations through my photography, and then my writing skills come through that. Photography has always been a passion from a young age. My father did photography as a youngster so I feel I have inherited those genes. I then studied for my AS Level photography in 2003 and it was on this course that I found my love for black and white photography and photo-journalism. Many years before I began my photography journey on a manual SLR (Zanuzzi) which was the basis for me learning about apertures and shutter speeds. I then progressed to a Nikon Manual SLR and my current camera I’ve had for 6 years (a Canon EOS 300 D). I won £500 in a National Photography Competition in the UK in 2004 and that paid for it. Just last year I bought a 70-200 Tamron Lens and have been experimenting with macro and shooting subjects from a distance.

What particular subject do you enjoy?


I love everything and anything. I put a lot of variety in my work. I have yet to discover my favourite genre. I capture life and the living. I do enjoy images that tell a story and I am amazed at what black and white to colour can portray in deciphering the story behind the photo. They are very different. To me colour is Real but black and white shows more of an emotion. I have always loved the emotive photo of a "migrant mother" taken by Dorothea Lange, that is definately a favourite. 


Who do you look up to?


Definitely my parents. I am – because of them. They really have supported me through the thick and thin. I could not do without them.

How long have you been blogging?

I have had a Live Journal for around 8 years however that is mostly private musings and this blogspot is fairly new. I felt that I needed to document my photographs and thoughts and this was the perfect avenue to start out at. Long Live Blogging!!

I hope you have enjoyed this brief interview about me.

Love & Light

Tracy ♥

Go on Hug a Tree

Ever hug a tree. Ever feel the energy from the tree, from the roots to its tips. Even trees have their own vibration, like everything else around us. One of the long distant attunements that I facilitate is Celtic Reiki which consists of 3 levels. The symbols used in Celtic Reiki are from the Druidic alphabet (Ogham).. basically Celtic Reiki is a version of Usui reiki that uses vibrations of the earth, specific trees and shrubs to create an environment suitable for healing and manifestation. I am privileged to be able to pass the attunements. When I was pregnant I was attuned to Celtic Reiki and felt the need to go out and hug a tree.

I felt at one with the tree. I wasn't completely able to envelop the tree due to my huge stomach but naturally was amazed that my fingers started tingling which meant that my reiki was flowing and it was a sign that the tree required the healing energy. Here is me hugging at tree at 30 weeks pregnant. These are other photos I took in the area around Grainsby in Lincolnshire.

The following photos are taken from my son's school. I was amazed by the light shining through the trees. I took some time to appreciate this pleasure. It felt glorious having the sun shine upon me.

So, don't forget our Tree Kingdom, very old souls, giants of the Earth that have withstood all things imagineable, standing tall with full of wisdom. We could learn something from trees, Tracy Kelly

Next photo taken in Horncastle, Lincolnshire during Autumn

I leave you with a quote:

And see the peaceful trees extend

their myriad leaves in leisured dance

they bear the weight of sky and cloud

upon the fountain of their veins.

- Kathleen Raine, Envoi