Landscape: Honorable Mention 2014 (professional)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A suspended wall of water, miles off the coast of WA in the middle of the ocean.
Photographed from the water - 2013, Nikon Camera housed in an Aquatech water-housing.
ISO 320 - 1/2000s - f/5.6
AUTHOR
For “Freedom” I live.
Based in the coastal town of Margaret River, Western Australia with my wife and 3 children. I have evolved my photography in and around the ocean from a surfing injury and with a camera. Building my passion into a lifestyle career.
I remember the first time I started to shoot from the water, it was a perfect day in Margaret River.
There was incredible light, offshore winds, glassy conditions, a crowded line-up and surfers hassling for position.
I had no one around me in the water, I could feel and hear all the elements, there was a calm and peace, like before a storm.
Little did I know, it was such a pivotal experience leading me to pursue a daily connection with the ocean.
Photography has allowed me to meet many amazing people, document moments and experiences in time that have become far more than a print on the wall and a cover of a magazine. Adventures, memories and friendships have all transpired from the camera.
As a photographer, I want to remember myself for taking the “One Shot”, not because of the surfers name or the companies I worked with, but because of the position I put myself in to capture a moment in time, an amazing view of the ocean that cannot be photographed without an element of risk.
It’s an enlivening experience to live and work from a place of passion.
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