Weather Watcher's photos developed into artworks

Julie Taylor loves sharing her pictures of the Cornish weather

A keen photographer who helped with the pilot and start of BBC Weather Watchers 10 years ago has "never lost the excitement and pride that I had on that first day".

Julie Taylor recalled snapping "a beautiful pink dawn" down the road near her home in Cornwall when she headed out to take as many pictures as possible on the first day of Weather Watchers in 2015.

She said: "I went home, put it on the system and about 10 minutes later I was just sat having my cup of tea and there was my picture on the television."

It has led her to "greater things" as she did an art course and now makes paintings from her photographs, she said.

Julie Taylor's picture of dawn in Cornwall on the first day of Weather Watchers

One of her artworks was inspired by a Weather Watchers photo she took of a poppy field in West Pentire in north Cornwall.

Julie Taylor said: "I was so inspired by that photograph and I thought 'I'm just going to have a go and see if I can get a likeness of it', so I was quite pleased how it worked out really."

Everyone at her art class "couldn't believe that I'd done that, inspired by Weather Watchers", she recalled.

"I feel very proud because the art class I went to weren't aware that I'd done this."

Julie was inspired to paint a poppy field she photographed for Weather Watchers

Ms Taylor said she still feels delighted when her pictures are featured.

"It doesn't matter how many times I get them on, I really feel proud that somebody thinks my picture's okay."