Margaret Goodwin was born in the English Lake District.  At the age of seven her parents, both keen photographers, gave her a camera, and the enduring love of photography began. 

Margaret was inspired by two family friends both great mountain photographers.  Howard Somerville was part of the team who accompanied Mallory and Irvine on their ill-fated summit attempt of Everest in June 1924 and Margaret says it was the photographs taken from Rongbuk that inspired her to visit Everest base camp.  Howard Somerville's fine collection of photographs are now lodged with the Alpine Club.

Another inspiration was Alfred Gregory who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary to 27,900 feet when he conquered the summit of Everest in 1953, these two photographers along with a love of the Lake District were certainly instrumental in ensuring the Margaret would first and foremost be a landscape photographer.  Margaret has travelled to over sixty countries and in recent years, increasingly to remote regions of the world capturing landscapes and tribal people whose way of life is swiftly changing and disappearing.

Margaret uses a 35mm SLR camera and has avoided the move to digital.  Whilst digital has certainly revolutionised the way we take pictures and has made reproduction of photographs much simpler, when it comes to the 'click' only traditional will do!  Margaret will admit it may take a little longer to get the right shot, but look at the time saved by not sitting at the computer later with photoshop!

All our images are scanned from transparencies and have not been manipulated, what you see is what Margaret has seen!  

Margaret is also involved in slide presentations and has presented her work to the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal Geographical Society, her work has featured in many travel magazines and newspapers.  Margaret has been awarded an Associateship by the Royal Photographic Society in Photo Journalism