The photographer created this image by taking 70 exposures as she walked a full circle around the tree. She then layered all the frames, one on top of the other, with varying degrees of opacity.
As a result, the darker parts of the image represent a high number of pixels - pixels recurring in numerous layers -, whereas the lighter parts of the image represent pixels only occurring in a few frames. The accumulation of pixels thereby becomes a true two-dimensional representation of the three-dimensional oak.
Hilda Champion is a German/American fine art photographer born near Munich, Germany. She has been living in Naples, Florida since 2001.
Her aspiration in photography is to release the poetry of the ordinary and help people see the un-seen. She tries to show an abstraction of what she sees, free of distractions, and describes her images as “based on a true fantasy”.
Awards Hilda Champion has won numerous international awards and nominations. Among the recent ones:
2022 ND Awards 1st Place
2022 TIFA 2 x Gold, 1 x Bronze
2022 Chromatic Awards 3rd Place
2022 BIFA 1 x Gold, 1 x Bronze
2022 1 x Silver, 1 x Bronze
2022 Monovision 2nd Place
2022 MIFA 1 x Bronze
2021 FAPA 3rd Place
2021 MIFA 1 x Silver
2021 ND Awards 1 x Gold, 1 x Silver
2021 BIFA 1 x Gold, 2 x Silver, 1 x Bronze
2020 PX3 1 x Gold, 1 x Bronze winner
2020 MIFA 1 x Bronze winner
2020 Color Awards 3rd Place winner
2020 APA Landscape Photographer of the Year
2020 BIFA 2 x Bronze
2019 IPA Awards 2 x Silver winner
2019 PX3 1 x Gold, 2 x Silver winner
2019 Monochrome Awards 3rd place winner
