About
Susan is a photographer and writer living in South Devon. She started out as an industrial physicist and manufacturing engineer and then owned a software training business. A life-style change led her to move to Devon and open a nursery which led to writing and photographic commissions.
She is a contract photographer for a large mining company and has undertaken several commissions to photograph wildlife on their sites. At present she is working on a wildlife book for the company.
She is the resident photographer for Devon Wildlife Hospital and Devon Wildlife Centre, and has worked with the Barn Owl Trust.
The Exhibitions and Awards section gves details of recent projects.
Her most recent writing project is the novel The Ultimate Defiance, which is linked to the Two Stories Exhibition, and is based on true events.
Several years ago she undertook a commission from a quarry company to photograph their mining sites. A panel of photographs from this allowed her to obtain a Distictinction from the Royal Photographic Society at Associate level (ARPS)
She has been commission to create biodiversity photographic libraries .Such libraries can be used to create a positive public perception of a company, or can simply be used for a record of beauty.
Photographs have a much greater impact than words alone when one wishes to promote a positive environmental image.
Susan Young MSc ARPS
Author of "Personal Computers in Horticulture" and "Computer Gardening"