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Clara Bullock,West of England and <\/p>\n

Chris Lockyer,in Watchet<\/p>\n

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Liz Elmont said taking pictures for BBC Weather Watchers helped her get over her stroke<\/p>\n

A woman who struggled to leave the house after she had a stroke has said taking weather photos got her out of a “really dark place”. <\/p>\n

Liz Elmont, from Watchet in Somerset, suffered a stroke in 2021 and said she was left housebound, and thought she would never be able to take photos again.<\/p>\n

“One day, I thought ‘I should take a picture for [BBC] Weather Watchers, I haven’t done that in ages’. It suddenly became the thing that got me out of the house,” Ms Elmont said.<\/p>\n

She now takes photos of her local area, capturing changes in the weather, and has had a few appear on BBC Points West, as part of the BBC Weather Watcher scheme – which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n

\"Liz<\/p>\n

Ms Elmont now takes photos again<\/p>\n

Ms Elmont has been taking photos professionally throughout her life, for magazines and estate agents.<\/p>\n

“Out of the blue, I had a stroke. I couldn’t get outside much anymore,” Ms Elmont said.<\/p>\n

“I was really miserable. I sold off some of my lenses because I thought I’d never use them again, I was really in a dark place.”<\/p>\n

One day, she said she decided to take out her phone and capture the weather to upload onto BBC Weather Watchers.<\/p>\n

“It gave me a boost and helped me do things again,” Ms Elmont said.<\/p>\n

“When you put a photograph on Weather Watchers and you see it was picked, it’s a real boost. Especially when it’s used on TV in the evening, it’s fabulous.”<\/p>\n

\"Ant<\/p>\n

Ant Walker takes photographs while out walking his husky<\/p>\n

In Gloucestershire, Ant Walker takes pictures of the weather every day while walking his husky Anika.<\/p>\n

Mr Walker, whose Weather Watcher profile is ‘Space Walker’, said he had not been much of a photographer before now.<\/p>\n

“I just happened to be randomly checking the forecast for Gloucestershire on the BBC website, and I saw this thing about favourite Weather Watcher pictures and I thought, ‘I’ll have a go at that!’ <\/p>\n

“So, I took one at Upton St Leonards of a tree and a gate, and that same evening it happened to appear on Points West to my surprise and delight.”<\/p>\n

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Husky Anika supports Ant during his photography walks<\/p>\n

BBC Weather Watchers<\/a> was launched in November 2015.<\/p>\n

The crowd-sourcing weather club has more than 362,000 registered users sending in photos from across the UK, many of which are shown during weather forecasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Bullock,West of England and Chris Lockyer,in Watchet BBC Liz Elmont said taking pictures for BBC Weather Watchers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-267663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}