Irene Amiet is a nature photographer, conservationist and freelance writer from Basel, Switzerland. Her visual work ranges between serenity and stillness to action and motion, capturing nature’s moods in all their facets through a minimalistic approach. Having lived and worked in Bermuda, Panama, South Africa and Texas prior to moving to Lancashire, her work has been influenced by different cultures and people’s co-existence with nature. Her work has been featured in Africa Geographic, National Geographic’s online forums, various Texas press and gained multiple awards. Irene has also been a long-term contributor to Coast Monthly Magazine, published by Texas’s oldest standing newspaper, the Galveston Daily News, for which she has run a blog on nature photography and the outdoors. Her commercial photography projects have included portfolios for fashion, jewellery and real estate companies. In Texas, Irene has gained a love for large birds and started her study of avian motion and ballet