Life in Focus - Nicole Getty Photography

Jim Stevenson
Aug 28
3 min read

A Tale of Two Loves - Nicole has two loves in her life - Her two sons, TJ and Ollie and her photography.

Nicole Getty posing with her camera on the deck of a boat in Norway. Scenery is cliffs, trees and mist. — Nicole in Norway.

Her two sons TJ and Ollie are full of life and constant movement, learning as they go through their lives with full support from Nicole, who encourages them to be themselves as they navigate life.

Her photography came from her appreciation of nature in its many forms. About 12 years ago she picked up her first camera, a Nikon D300 and never looked back.

Ballymena Photographer, Nicole first started her Midtown Makers journey a year ago when she nervously came into the shop to ask for help selling her photography. She signed up for the Retail Ready Programme, which gave her 2 months free test trading and vital advice and guidance from Ballymena Business Centre. With a lot of hard work and expert printing from Ryan at Woodside Photographic, Nicole displayed her pictures in the window of Midtown Makers and made her first sale in a retail environment.

Working as a book keeper for a local business and with the full support of her partner Darren , she finds time to get away and spend that time within Nature, capturing the beauty that she finds on her travels, whether it is animals with their distinctive unique features and individual beauty, or the fantastic revolving world of landscapes that unfold before her.

Nicole's favourite thing to capture is the individual, intricate and flawlessness elegance of flowers. Their colour and vibrancy capsulates her eye, creating a history of their radiance, their undocumented oneness, their life from fertilization to their passing, creating their seed pods and the continuation of their species, which she explains that this is not just a flower, but a life that is important to us all. She believes that these pictures she takes help heal her and others, who find them therapeutically beautiful and make them feel better, in themselves as they connect with nature and life.

Close up photo by Nicole Getty of buds opening on a plant. — Macro lens for plant detail

Using a Macro lens, helps show their beauty and she finds that this is one of her favorite lenses to use, it inspires her to become better and become recognised as one of Northern Ireland’s leading Woman Photographers within the next 5 years.

During this year, Nicole has been recognised by both the RHSC and the NIPA, as they have published her work in their magazines and also awarded an accolade for her architectural piece, entitled “Static Motion”, where she captured a circular staircase in The Braid in Ballymena. Also, she was picked to be the official photographer of Lurgan Agricultural Show and as one of the photographers at Castlewellan Agricultural Show.

Nicole's back, wearing high vis top, reads official photographer Lurgan Show.

Self-taught, Nicole now uses a Sony A7Riv one of their new mirrorless cameras, which she finds it helps control her pictures, giving her a quality that she has found important, especially as she does like to use manual control and finish with a little Lightroom, believing that you shouldn’t have to make major changes to the original photo.

Highland cow with calf by Nicole Getty. — Highland Cow and Calf by Nicole Getty Photography

Nicole has just returned from a trip of a lifetime for her, as she has always wanted to travel to the Nordic Countries, so that she can capture the country with its fjord’s , glacial waterfalls, mountains and beautiful scenery, which surpassed even her imagination. Opening another chapter in her photography journey.