Steffie Shields is a photographer, writer and lecturer specialising in historic landscapes, gardens and plant portraiture,  with Garden Matters Photographic Agency. Her work has been widely published.

Her photograph 'Blanket-Stitch' was Commended in the 2009 International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY). 'The Glow'  has been Highly Commended in the 2012 IGPOTY competition.

Based in Lincolnshire, Steffie is a regular contributor of illustrated articles to Lincolnshire Life magazine, a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society, member of the Garden History Society, the Garden Media Guild (Photographers' Group) and Professional Garden Photographers Association. Vice-Chairman of Lincolnshire Gardens Trust and Vice-Chairman of the (national) Association of Gardens Trusts (AGT). She is on the University of Cambridge Tutors Panel, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley with 'Capability' Brown/ landscape history her specialist subject.