20 | The Grapevine Issue 171 2014
Over the last year, you will have
often seen the copyright comment on
many of our featured photo articles Foto: Fay Hughes
(www.javeamigos.com)
Quietly working in the background of
Javeamigos.com, Fay has worked,
tirelessly, to
produce
stunning
photo albums on life in Javea.
Foto Focus:
Fay Hughes
(www.javeamigos.com)
No event ever goes by without a
photographic insight into the people,
the atmospehere and the town.
All most of us will see will be a modest
link like this “For more information on
this fiesta, follow this link: http://www.
javeamigos.com/dir_fiesta/pages/fiesta_moros.htm — in Jávea.”
It goes without saying that Mike’s
meticulously researched insights
and and Fay’s photos have made
javeamigos.com a major resource for
information on Javea - but for once I
would like to turn the camera round
and talk about Fay and her photography.
The first thing that I asked Fay was -
When did you
start taking photos?
I first picked up the camera aged
about 5, my Dad’s black n white Kodak camera, the results were mostly
lopsided or blurry
Did you take a
photography course?
I was given a Russian made SLR film
camera from unclaimed lost property
while working in a London Hotel and
enrolled in an evening class to learn
how to use it.
See a selection of
Fay’s photos available for sale as
cards, prints and more on
www.redbubble.com
Unfortunately because I wax working
shifts I couldn’t complete the course
but learnt enough to get the bug and
bought myself a Canon SLR film
camera with birthday money the following year.
Jesús de la Rocha from Fila
Jalufos and Fay Hughes Smith
taken in July 2014 during
’Moors and Christians’ (foto:Mike Smith)