
A new start after 60: I quit my job, bought a camera – and became a successful wildlife photographer
At last the heather moved. A badger's head appeared. 'Their eyesight is poor, but they can smell you,' Jackson says. At 66, she has won national and international awards as a wildlife photographer. Although the desire to get the shot 'drives' her, for a while she simply watched. 'You want to embrace what's there. It's so special to see wildlife up close.'
At least two of the shots Jackson took that evening are 'competition-worthy'. Yet she didn't pick up a camera, beyond a simple point-and-shoot, until she was 61.
Jackson, who lives in Derbyshire, England, spent most of her working life as an engineer in the rail industry. In 1978, she was one of the first two women taken on by British Rail as design engineers. She designed carriage systems for the Channel tunnel trains, and regards the British Rail Class 91 high-speed electric locomotive as 'my baby'; she managed its emerging weight and balance.
In 1994, she and her husband, also an engineer, moved from the UK to Sydney, Australia. She worked, or spent time with their two daughters. 'I didn't put aside time for myself.'
Jackson retired at 56 when her hearing became impaired. 'Meetings were very social. Cafe environments, hard surfaces, clitter-clatter, people talking in the background. I realised I was missing too much. I didn't want to embarrass myself or the organisation I worked for. So I decided to give up,' she says.
She didn't ask for adjustments to the meetings?
'I probably didn't want people to know.'
In 2018, she and her family returned to England. 'What am I going to do now?' she thought. 'The emails went from 550 to 50, and 20 of them were junk. I needed something to stimulate me.'
The following year, at 61, she bought her first DSLR camera and joined a local walking and photography group; then, when Covid hit, she enrolled in an online photography and Photoshop course. A history of pneumonia meant she had to shield, so she photographed whatever she could find indoors – still life, flowers, pets. 'If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it properly.'
Jackson publishes under the name 'Emmabrooke', after years of being presumed male in engineering and mistakenly being called Michael. But she brings to her camera 'an engineering brain … I do everything in manual'.
She has always loved nature. In her 20s, she hiked long distances, including the 268 miles of the Pennine Way in northern England. 'Nature, seeing the big picture of landscapes, has always been there. But I didn't use a camera,' she says. It was only after retirement that the camera became 'a means to capture what I'd seen. The things you take for granted.' Even planning a boat trip to see humpback whales, 'I didn't consider buying a decent camera. I was just enthralled by seeing: the fact you could see them, rather than have a photograph to remember them by.'
Maybe there is a connection between hearing loss and wanting to 'capture' the environment she witnessed? Jackson's images are sharp and crisp, and the result of an acutely focused anticipatory vision. 'I have a mind's eye of what I'd like to get,' she says. She once waited hours for two gannets to bring their heads together in the shape of a heart.
'When you lose a sense, other senses get stronger,' she says. 'I've got my eyesight.'
Jackson is preparing for her Master Craftsman award with the Guild of Photographers. She achieved her associate level with the Royal Photographic Society last year and is now aiming to achieve fellowship. She spends at least 20 hours a week in the field. 'I'm besotted with British wildlife. I get excited each time,' she says. Whether she is photographing badgers, ospreys, kingfishers or a golden eagle in the snow, she says: 'It's the thrill of them turning up. If you really want to seek them out, you'll find them.'
You can see Michelle Jackson's work on her website, on Instagram and on BlueSky
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She seemed quite content as she sat in her seat with her sunglasses on, snug in her baseball jacket with a black headband tied around her blonde hair. And astonished passengers couldn't believe their eyes as they stepped out of the way to let her embark as she re-tied her bow and headed to the exit. This was not the first time that RiRi has decided to join the common people on public transport. And she is familiar with the Jubilee Line route as during her tour of the UK the yearb prior she travelled to her gig on the tube with her delighted fans. Rihanna was snapped on the Jubilee Line as she headed to the O2 Arena to rehearse in 2012 Nicole Scherzinger Nicole Scherzinger fearlessly attempted to blend in with the masses and take the tube to get from A to B in 2015. Either she was very cold or did not want to be recognised, as she went incognito for the occasion in a black coat, fedora hat, The Kooples boots and shades. Once inside a carriage, the former Pussycat Doll seemed anything but a 'normal' person. She posed like the queen of pop she really is, lifting her legs up against the pole to take a number of saucy snaps for her Instagram followers to coo over. Thankfully, there weren't many people on board and she was left alone to travel in peace without the threat of being mobbed. In one snap, Nicole proved just how much she was fitting in with those around her, as no one even seemed to notice they were in her company and were instead occupied by their phones. Nicole Scherzinger fearlessly attempted to blend in with the masses and take the tube to get from A to B in 2015 Lily Allen caught the tube to Beyoncé's gig at London's O2 Arena in March 2014 Welsh star Catherine Zeta-Jones shared a series of snaps during her own tube journey The Britain's Got Talent cast posed for a selfie during a surprise tube trip between auditions (L-R: Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Amanda Holden, Ant McPartlin, Declan Donnelly and Alesha Dixon) Pop legend Sir Cliff Richard caught passengers by surprise after making his way onto a packed Jubilee Line tube in 2018 There was no chance of anyone failing to spot Rita Ora at Charing Cross station ahead of her appearance at the MTV EMAs Ellie Goulding looked understated in snap from the London tube