Hi, and welcome to my website.
Good art is made up of many things but most of all
patience and sometimes chance.

Photography…… and being a photographer, is no different. It takes a lot of patience to be able to capture life on film (actually, nowadays in pixels), and sometimes chance to be able to capture that once in a lifetime shot, that image which brings the memory of that moment so close that you are able to relive it again and again every time you look at it.
I once traveled to the Arctic Circle to document a group of women sledging from Svalbard to the Van Post Glacier at the tip of Norway. It was bitterly cold, probably the coldest I have ever been in my life at about -30 deg. I was layered from top to toe and had to take special precaution for my hands so that I could photograph and still feel my fingers. I was the last person/sledger in the group so that I could stop to photograph whenever I needed to. I had 6 dogs pulling my sledge, all very strong and eager to stay with the group and not keen to stop at any point to wait for a human to take snapshots! To control the dogs, the sledge, the camera and cope with the weather conditions all at once, and with the realisation that there was no-one to cover my back in case the odd polar bear decides for a somewhat different style of breakfast – well, it was all very exhilarating and frightening at the same time. In moments like these you will find yourself challenged as a photographer but also as a human being. And to be able to get, even only one! good image, well, then you have achieved your goal.
78ºN – Pyramiden – Abandoned Russian settlement and coal mining community – Svalbard, Norway
I’ve been photographing since 1998 and still want more and more moments to capture. I hope that I never get too old to press that shutter button or to be able to see that specific moment before I press down the shutter.
Robeya Williams Walt
Photographing Life
1998-2013


