Gerri Crockwell-Sequeros doesn’t consider herself to be a photographer, she just likes to permanently capture images that she finds interesting using a camera.

Which seems to suit the definition of photography, just nicely.

In the last couple of months those unassuming images of Bermuda sunsets, landmarks and people have been wowing Facebook users.

The Royal Gazette often uses some of her landscape photographs, taken almost daily, to illustrate a regular weather feature on this newspaper’s Facebook page.

“I don’t actually go out with the intention of taking pictures,” said Ms Crockwell-Sequeros. “I like riding my scooter around.”

She splits her time between Bermuda and Spain. Seeing the Island after a long spell of living abroad gives her a fresh perspective.

“The weather is always nice here even when it rains,” she said. “Half the time I leave home without any real plan as to where I am going to go, I just like riding my scooter. I always have my camera with me. Sometimes I will say, gosh the wind is coming from a certain direction, let’s see what is happening over there.”

Ms Crockwell-Sequeros has a bit of a nosy streak which often leads her to interesting photo opportunities. On one photo shoot she was driving along and saw a wedding happening on a public beach. She went down to investigate and ended up taking photos of a little bridesmaid playing at the waters edge while the wedding party had formal photos taken by a professional photographer.

Another time, she was driving around Dockyard and noticed the rampart road that connects the old Casemates prison to the National Museum of Bermuda.

“I had gone under it several times, but never really noticed it before,” she said. “Another time I noticed a big smokestack. I don’t know why I hadn’t noticed it before. I wondered what it was. It was the smokestack to the old engine flushing house. I asked a man there if I could take a photos. He gave me some background and I went off and posted it on the Old Bermuda Facebook page.”

Many people came back to her on Facebook with information about the building. She is now a regular poster on Old Bermuda. She particularly enjoys finding old photos of locations in Bermuda, then going out and photographing them again in present day to compare how the location has changed.

Before moving to Spain, she worked in the insurance industry. She has no training, at all, in photography, although she would like to take a course or two one day.

“I probably spend about half the year in Spain,” she said. “When I originally went there it was with the intention of using Spain as a base to travel around the rest of Europe. I haven’t done that. I have travelled to places further afield from Spain. When I first went there it took me about a year or so to get my papers sorted out and I ended up not being able to leave the country.

“During that time I started travelling around Spain and found it absolutely fascinating. There are so many different things there. The climate is different from one place to another. I still spend a lot of time travelling around the country.

“I spent about five years living in Madrid and then I moved south. I have an apartment in one of the little white mountain villages, Ojen in Andalusia near Marbella. My village has about 2,000 residents and I am about an hour from Gibraltar. Where I live, usually in the winter time, I can see Africa from my balcony. You can just see the mountains.”

Ms Crockwell-Sequeros takes just as many photos in Spain and the other places she visits as she does in Bermuda.

She uses a small basic point and shoot camera with a Leica lens. She confessed that she had a tendency to treat her cameras badly.

“I like to take pictures of where I have been and what I want to remember,” she said. Many of her photographs are of sunsets and sunrises.

She said since she started taking photos in Bermuda she has been surprised by the fact that different locations are better for the daily solar events, than others, depending on the season. At this time of year, she said Church Bay was quite good for sunsets.

“You never see one there in the summer,” she said.

She enjoys visiting the same spots over and over again in different seasons, times of day and weather conditions to see how they change. One of her favourite spots to do this is a little old bridge on Parson’s Bay on Ireland Island in Sandys.

“I have probably taken 40 pictures there at different times and weather conditions,” she said. “It changes so much.”

She didn’t think her photos were good enough for an exhibition, but she was particularly proud that many of her artist friends and family members had used her photos as the basis for paintings and sketches.