While she is out enjoying nature armed with a camera, Cindy Rowe, a long-time Martintown resident, always looks at things from a different prospective.
“Now with digital cameras, it takes no time at all to shoot a few hundred photos,” she said. “The great thing is you can immediately delete you don’t like.”
Rowe studied photography for three years at St. Lawrence College.
“With the advent of digital cameras and phones, it is so easy to get into photography.”
Rowe simply loves, admires and cares for nature.
“I love nature, any and all kinds of nature. You never know what you are going to find and see.”
She loves taking photographs of loons, owls, dragon flies and mushrooms.
One time, while in the open field photographing dragonflies, she had this creepy feeling that she was being watched.
“When I looked up, there was a coyote watching her from about 200 feet away,” she recalled. “I was a bit nervous, but ended up with a great shot.”
There is nothing Rowe likes paddling along and finding a loon sitting on a nest right in front of her.
“I always take my camera with me when I am kayaking,” Rowe said, adding she has some great shots of eagles during such trips.
Rowe who has always worked in Cornwall, said local residents don’t have to go far to admire nature.
She said there are lots of spots in the area to capture nature at its best like the Rotary Echo Garden, the Coopers Marsh, the Guindon Park and the Long Sault Parkway.
Rowe has photographed migrating snow geese, snowy eagles and a variety of other birds.
Whenever she travels to Florida, the first thing she wants to know about closest wetland or wildlife refuge areas.
She was photographed seals and turtles being released in the Florida area.
One of her favorite shots is of seals kissing each other as they say goodbye to each other and head back to freedom in the ocean.
Her sister Shirley Zundell in Vermont is an avid birder and a naturalist.
The Cornwall Photography Club has a great Face book page where members share their best photographs.
Rowe’s photos have been on CTV News.
“I don’t really enter photo contests,” she said.
Rowe does a lot of voluntary work with Youth Unlimited, Cornwall Horticultural Society and the Cornwall Waterfest Dragon Boat Race.
She lives on an80 acre farm with her husband Jim.
During her younger days, she developed her own films and processed photographs in a dark room in the basement.
