This is Me!
Hi, This is me, Amy! A photographer based in Devon and Cornwall. Welcome to my website and to my first blog!
I have always been creative and had an interest in art from a young age, but I can tell you exactly when my photography journey began.
Graduating from Plymouth University with a first class Marine Biology degree in 2008 I was lucky enough to walk straight into a job as a Marine Mammal Observer working offshore. My employers gave me a company issue Canon DSLR (I still use Canon today) so that I could document sightings of whales and dolphins for reports and identification purposes. That was that. I spent the next eight years at sea travelling around the world photographing wildlife (I will do another blog on my wildlife photography exploits later). Starting my photography career shooting wildlife taught me one important lesson when I later moved onto wedding photography. That is, you have to always be ready to get ‘that shot’. Marine mammals are elusive and notoriously difficult to photograph so you have to have your camera and your settings ready to capture the precise moment they surface otherwise its gone forever. You can therefore rest easy knowing that I come with 12 years experience of photographing those not to be missed special moments. I will be there, camera at the ready, to capture those hugs, smiles, tears and emotions of your wedding day (as stealthily as possible).
After leaving life at sea I began focusing more on photographing people. After all, it is much nicer knowing where your subjects will be and when. That is when wedding photography began for me. I love photographing weddings. You are surrounded by so much happiness all day. What better job is there? To spend the day surrounded by people at their happiest, and having just the best time. When it was time to come up with a name for my work and wedding photography business I was not yet married and was still Amy Boaden. Known by most as ‘Boaden’ or more often just ‘Boads’. So began Boads Images’
I am now Mrs Gregory and my husband and I are fortunate enough to live on the Lizard in Cornwall with our slightly crazy dog Roxy. The Cornish coastline is a photographers dream and when I am not busy at work you will find me by the sea, with my camera of course. The sea is where it all began for me and I continue to photograph sea scapes and ocean scenes in my spare time (check out my online store for prints inspired by the ocean). I am a perfectionist and focus (perhaps too much ) on details, but that is me and I love what I do.
Follow me on instagram and keep up to date with my latest work. My June blog will focus on our home; Devon and Cornwall.
The only picture I could find of my husband, our dog Roxy and me and we aren’t even looking at the camera. The problem with being a photographer is that you are too often behind the lens and not in front of it.
I remember this night. It was a storm in the Gulf of Guinea off the West African coastline. I waited up until the early hours to try and photograph the lightening.
Where it all began. Photographing wildlife at sea.
Somewhere at sea! Camera at the ready to photograph whatever wildlife has caught my attention.
One of my favourite things about working at sea was not just the plethora of wildlife I was lucky to see, but waking up to beautiful sunrises every day or staying on the vessel bridge to watch the sunset. There were some pretty spectacular ones.