Photo Library

Jill Dickin Schinas has been taking photographs in a semi-professional capacity ever since the time, twenty years ago, when she was asked to supply some shots for a windsurfing magazine. Her photos have appeared in Yachting World, Practical Boat Owner, Small World, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, and in various other national and local newspapers.

The photos have been sorted into a number of categories, many of which have then been divided into sub-categories. For example, the Buildings category contains sub-categories devoted to Archways; Castles; Chimneys; Churches, Cathedrals, and Mosques; Doors and Doorways; Houses; Pubs and Inns; Tower-blocks; Rooves; Watermills; Windmills and Wind-pumps; and Windows. Some of these subcategories are further subdivided. Many of the images are included in two or more categories. If you do not want to browse through all the categories, try using the search box which is at the top right-hand corner of every page.

If you can't find what you are looking for, please contact us. Thus far, this photo library contains only a small part of the collection.

The photographs on this website are all copyright and may not be reproduced, copied, or used for any purpose whatsoever without the prior consent of Jill Dickin Schinas. The right to use an image may be purchased. To learn more please click on the shopping trolley icon or contact us.

To take a closer look at a photo, click on the magnifying glass or on the image itself.

Most of my photographs were taken during our travels aboard our sailing boat. They include images of the Caribbean, West Africa, Spain and the Canary Islands, South Africa, St Helena, Namibia, the Cape Verde archipelago, South America, the Falklands, the Azores... and Southern England and North Wales. Naturally enough, boats, beaches, and marine wildlife feature strongly. There are also plenty of shots of the sea itself and of life on the ocean wave, and the children and their canoes and sailing dinghies are also well represented.
Besides enjoying all things nautical I also have a fixation with windmills - particularly half-ruined ones - and with ancient buildings and prehistoric monuments. This interest is made manifest in a large stock of photographs of old Moorish castles, Iron Age hill-forts, timber-framed houses, and mediaeval churches.

Many of the more exotic locations were photographed using a slide camera, and I am gradually scanning and uploading these images. If you cannot find what you are looking for, drop me a line.

Photo labs are few and far between in many parts of the world and so I used to have to develop my slides myself, on the boat. The digital era has made my life much simpler!

Living on the sea, I get through cameras rather fast. I do my best to look after them, keeping them in a waterproof box and carrying them around in waterproof bags, but in the heat of the moment - or the wet of the moment - commonsense seems to abandon me and the photograph is all that matters. My last camera was drowned when, in my haste to capture the shot, I accidentally shut the camera strap in the closure of its waterproof housing. That careless mistake let in the sea and cost me around five hundred quid.
For close encounters with the water I now rely on an Olympus MJU 725. It has obvious drawbacks and several irritating mannerisms but at least it doesn’t mind swimming. When working on terra firma I use a Nikon SLR.

Copyright © 2008 Jill Dickin Schinas.
All images on this website are copyright and may not be reproduced, copied, or used for any purpose whatsoever without the prior consent of Jill Dickin Schinas.