Ladner's Rosemarie Hurst will be showing her nature photography work with a display at the Tsawwassen Library that runs for the month of April.
The exhibit, titled Nature Shots, will include approximately 25 photos, she estimates.
"I love nature. Being out in nature is really important. It's very peaceful. You never know what's going to pop up," says Hurst.
The exhibit will include landscapes, flowers and animals.
"Anything out in nature," she notes.
Animal shots include a close-up of a raccoon and a mother duck with her babies. Hurst called her raccoon photo a "grab shot."
"He just happened to look straight into my camera. So I was pretty lucky there."
While she photographed the raccoon at Stanley Park, a lot of her photos were taken locally, including in her back garden.
"You'll find interesting things pop up at you and you're not really looking, but something will show itself to me," she notes.
Hurst, who is mostly selftaught, still uses a 35-mm Minolta XLR camera.
"I haven't gone to the digital age yet," she says. "You don't know how the shot is going to turn out until you actually get the film developed."
Hurst adds that she also doesn't use Photoshop (a computer program) to edit her photos.
"So what you see is what you get, pretty well."
Hurst says she likes the quality of photos her camera produces but wouldn't mind giving digital a try sometime in the future.
Hurst has displayed and sold many of her framed photographs and photo art cards at craft fairs, Tsawwassen Arts Centre, Denman Mall, Lonsdale Quay, Delta Arts Council gift shops, Ladner Village Market, Gallery in the Garden, Summerfest and Rivermania.
Hurst, who is still recuperating well after a stroke and ruptured brain aneurysm in 2009, is currently working on a book of philo-sophical poetry.
She is transferring some of her work onto her computer.
"I'm putting them all in right now and I'll go back through and select it, and see how it takes shape."
She hopes to release the book, which will include some of her photography work, sometime next year.
Hurst is also a singer/ songwriter. She released her second CD, Faithfully Yours - Ballads of E. Pauline Johnson, last year. The CD is based on the work of Johnson (1861-1913), a Canadian poet known for celebrating her First Nations heritage in her writing.
"I love her poetry and I admire her so much for her courage, tenacity, fearlessness ... and belief in herself. She was ahead of her time and her story is a very fascinating and inspiring one," Hurst previously said.
Hurst will be having a meet and greet at the Tsawwassen Library, 1321A - 56th Street, on Saturday, April 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. Art cards and CDs will also be available for purchase.
For more on Hurst visit either www.myspace.com/ rosemariehurst or www. rosemariehurst.com.
