Winner :
1. Vista View 2. Portraiture 3. Trees
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Macro photography is an interesting genre. It allows one to explore detail close-up. The first image “Pencil Colour” received a MERIT at the 2020 APS Australian Digital Photography Awards (ADPA). The other images “After the Rain” and “Drops“ were also successful ‘acceptances’ in ADPA. They were both taken after rain capturing raindrops. I use an Olympus EM-1 camera with an Olympus 6o mm macro lens.
Travel in these current times is a luxury we can ill afford. So we are currently dealing with travel memories. I was lucky enough to also win Image of the Week recently in the Aussie Photography Facebook group - Norwegian view. Another landscape image from travels is below - Strazlecki Ranges, Flinders Island and another from New Zealand.
Trees can be enjoyable to photograph. Their look can be influenced by the seasons. The first image below was image of the week - Aussie Photography Facebook Group, June 2020. It was taken near Cape Schanck. The second image captures trees in autumn - in Bright Victoria. The third image is a capture of a tree and surrounding environment near Poole, United Kingdom.
Congratulations to the award winners in the Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize 2020 at Magnet Galleries Melbourne. There can be no physical gallery opening so there is instead a virtual tour. I have an image included in the finalists entitled “Life’s uncertainty” below. My artist’s statement is also below.
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Image on display at Magnet Gallery
Virtual gallery is now closed - an image of the Exhibition is above
Based in bayside Melbourne, my local Mordialloc is blessed with a longish pier which is very popular with fishermen and women. The weather conditions there can be very changeable. Recently it became very windy around dusk.
The global health situation, on the positive side, allows some of us to reflect and ignite our passion and review our photographic work. Here are some images with an emphasis on light, as a reflection of positivism and hope.
The locations respectively are 1. Kiah, near Eden in NSW 2. Mentone, bayside Melbourne and 3. Yarra Valley Victoria Australia.
Hawaii offered some unique seascape opportunities
Free Expressions is the magazine of the creative Contemporary Photography group of the Australian Photographic Society. This image of mine is one of street photography portraying contemporary mobile device usage ‘in the street’ with blur for effect. Location - Victoria Market, Melbourne.
Triptychs combine a number of images (3) together as one. This can facilitate storytelling or the conveying of a concept. This image captures a bird’s motion over time.
Summertime yields different colours as the sun sets - Beaumaris beach
Loving Sandy Point, first image below and other seascape sites in Melbourne - Bayside.
Abstract landscapes captured in Churchill Victoria and Sandy Point near Wilsons Promontory - Victoria Australia
I enjoy the landscapes of Northern England. Some images here from my recent trip to UK.
Photo-touring with Rod Ireland from Keswick way in the Lake District, he suggested I explore monochrome interpretation of the landscape.
The Lake District in UK is known to be very picturesque. This image below is from a valley in Grasmere. Other images are also around the Lake District.
Wasdale is a valley in the western part of the Lake District National park in Cumbriua, England.. The River Irt flows through the valley to its estuary at Ravenglass. A large part of the main valley floor is occupied by Wastwater, the deepest lake in England (258 feet). It is also the site of the highest peak in England, Scafell Pike.
- the power of light in photography
Happy to be shortlisted for the ACPP Prize. The two images below were also submitted. The finalists for the 2019 Australian Conceptual Photography Prize including my other shortlisted image is at https://www.a-p-s.org.au/index.php/exhibition/australian-conceptual-photography-prize.
Can be pleasant to the eye
