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Portrait of Chiz Dakin - c

A keen mountain walker, scrambler, cyclist and occasional climber and sea kayaker for several years, Chiz Dakin has carried a camera with her where-ever she goes since her fingers were big enough to press the shutter button.

Some years ago she finally managed to put both time and money together to fulfil a lifetime's dream to spend six months travelling round the world, and in doing so caught the travel bug quite severely, and began to think about taking her keen interest in photography even more seriously.

So in 2006 she gained her HND in Photography, and in 2007 turned professional as a landscape, outdoors and adventure sports photographer.

In 2008 she learned to put pen to paper (or was that finger to keyboard?!) and now writes travel articles professionally as well as producing the photos to illustrate them. Her next project for 2010 is writing (and photographing) a cycling guide to the Peak District for a major publisher.

She is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild (OWPG) and Writers and Photographers Unlimited (WPu) and her images have been published both UK-wide and internationally. At the end of 2008, she won the 2008-9 OWPG Award for Excellence in Photography for her images of the inaugural Madeira Isles Walking Festival.

In 2009 she finally decided that teaching photography was also fun (having dabbled with it for a few years previously), and has been researching the wonderful photographic opportunities in the Spanish Sierra Nevada. She is now running photography holidays for the leading trekking company of that region - Spanish Highs.

99% of the images she uses to illustrate her articles with are from her own photographic collection, and her website - Peak Images is the best place to find more of her images.