Genevieve Milnes lives a generous live. She’s busy with a wide range of activities, all of which bring her joy, but her life is also lived to bring joy to others.
I visited Genevieve on her Kendenup property, north of Albany, Western Australia and heard her many stories about a life that started right there on that property. As we sat on the verandah in view of the Stirling Range, the theme of much of her photography, she chatted about how she got into psychology and how that led to the Anglican priesthood.
She talked about how she had her first taste of photography at school, then took it up again later with a focus on the regrowth of her local environment following devastating bushfires. Genevieve is now well known as a landscape photographer.
Then she showed me her books and told the story of how she first got involved with restoring old books, telling the story of her meeting with an antiquarian bookseller in France.
There is a sense of joy in the way Genevieve tells all the stories of her generous life and the way in which that joy bubbles over into every aspect of her life. It’s been a full life, but one in which her contribution to both her work and her hobbies has intersected with many other lives along the way, bringing hope and joy to them as well.
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