Click here to view the award winners
Photography is the capture of light.
It may be light that has reflected in a microsecond, or it could be light that has radiated and is millions of years old.
The light that we experience around the world is often very different depending on the atmosphere that is travels through.
Here in Australia, we have very harsh lighting. In England the light is softer and in the Antarctic the light is so clean so that, when captured by the camera, it appears somewhat unnatural to those that have not experienced it.
Amanda is both a photographer and a painter.
Abstract photography is a method of expressing ideas and emotions with photographed image elements without the intention of creating a traditional or realistic image.
Amanda has captured the distortion of the reflection of light above a fishpond. You see the fish below and the reflection of the sky and plant life above the pond.
You only see these realistic elements if you look closely. From a viewing distance it is a very good abstract image comprised of natural elements but providing a mystery of lighting and shapes that I was attracted to.
Heidi is capturing the moment in this photograph.
Some people I have spoken to were suggesting that the photograph was a painting, probably by the light that is experienced in the location that the photo was taken.
It reminded me of famous French Photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson – Born 1908
Henri was one of the first photographers that used a 35mm camera. This gave him the freedom to walk around the streets of Paris, taking candid pictures of those around him.
Henri viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.
In 1932 he took his most famous photograph called Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare.
It was a photograph of the figure of a man leaping above a flooded area of water with his reflection in it. He was capturing the decisive moment in the leap.
Heidi captured the moment but instead of a blurry man it was a Gentoo Penguin making a decisive leap.
The cleanness of the image and my thoughts of the jumping man drew me to this picture.
Serenity is a photograph of contrasts.
You see the contrast of the structure reaching out into the water, giving the photo depth.
And you also see the contrast between the structure and the softness of the sea and the sky.
In black and white photography, contrast helps create depth, mood, and structure by enhancing the separation between shadows, midtones, and highlights.
I think it is a beautiful photo and is well suited as a monochrome photograph
I quite liked this photograph which has captured the lighthouse and the some of the stars of our galaxy, the milky way.
It does take some patience to be able to adjust the exposure settings of the camera in order to get such a pleasing result.
I liked the fine pixels that enables each individual star to be exposed to the viewer.
Once again, the light in Antarctica has produced a beautiful image with such clean lines to display the purity of the environment. To think that we are looking at just one tenth of the mountains of ice that are represented here. It is a wonderful representation of nature’s statue of liberty.
This is a great representation of an Australian country scene. The remnants of an old farmhouse with the tree standing nearby which could very well be even older than the evidence of a pioneer that once lived there. I really liked the detail captured in the foliage of the tree and it’s gnarled, battle worn trunk.
I hope you enjoy the photographs exhibited here tonight and please have a good look around the show and hopefully you will find something that you would like to take home.
