​I mentioned in my brief biography that I studied photography and the page entitled ‘Montserrat’ is an extended photo-essay that I did when I was a student. Hopefully it gives a flavour of me, but more importantly, the island and its people.

I visited the island of Montserrat, a tiny British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean in 1988. I revisited the island a year later in 1989, about six months after the island was badly hit by hurricane Gilbert. However six years later in July 1995, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupted and destroyed most of the main habitable areas, including the principle town, the airport and docking facilities. Two thirds of the population was forced to leave, mainly to the UK. 

All of the photographs were taken before the volcano erupted and record the parts of the island that would be ravaged by the volcano, so there is a poignancy to these photographs because they capture a world now lost.

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28/March/2018. I received an email from Caroline Clemens, a writer and blogger, who was very touched by one of the photographs and wrote a very moving piece about it. 
https://theivorytide.com/2018/03/26/pearl/

See my guest post for A Magical World of Words:
http://amagicalworldofwords.blogspot.co.za/2017/05/writing-and-inspiration-drawn-from.html