Marilyn has had a camera since her teens, bought an SLR with her first Christmas bonus, and moved to digital, with Photoshop, in 2000.
She joined the Sealed Knot Photo Team (a voluntary post) almost by chance having visited the Old Basing re-enactment in 2008, and re-enactment photography formed a big part of her photographic portfolio for many years.
People photography in general has also been a strong part of her photographic life, and in 2016 she started taking photographs of the Steampunk community, publishing a photobook ‘Steampunks meet the War of the Worlds’. In 2018 she went to Papua New Guinea for the cultural festivals, and after two more trips, she put together a panel of 21 images for a successful Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2022.
She has always enjoyed photographing wildlife of all kinds, but also enjoys photographing action events such as the Calgary Stampede.