Honoured and proud to again have images make the finalists list in the Australian Photography Awards (Landscape category). Refreshingly, this is one of the very few landscape photography competitions that recognises and rewards a meaningful and thought provoking narrative above pretty visual aesthetics. Proof that a landscape photograph can be anything and it doesn’t have to be popular, pretty or satisfy a mainstream audience. Congratulations to the winners and category finalists! 😀
Below are my two finalist images from the 2021 Australian Photography Awards. Clearly two very opposite artistic intents and mindsets and made at different stages of my photographic life. The top image was made using ICM or intentional camera movement during one exposure. The bottom is a documentary style image made during my "Back Roads of Americana" series highlighting the human impact on the American western desert landscape.
Decimation | Charred remnants of wildfire devastation | Glacier National Park, Montana.
A Salted Land | Salt mining in the Bristol Dry lake bed | Mojave Desert, California.