Oak Solo

• Prize
  Silver in Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced, Gold in Fine Art/Still Life, Silver in Nature/Trees
• Photographer
  Hilda Champion, United States
• Date of Photograph
  5/25/2018
• Studio
  Lifescape Images, LLC.
• Socials
• Website
  https://hildachampion.com

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.

• Biography
  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: 2025 IPA Awards Bronze 2025 Monovision Awards 3rd Place 2025 PX3 1 x Gold, 1 x Silver 2025 FMoPA 2nd Place 2024 Chateau Gallery Curator's Choice 2024 FAPA 3rd Place 2024 PX3 2 x Silver, 1 x Bronze 2024 Minimalist Awards 1st Place 2024 B&W Spider Awards 1st Place 2024 BIFA 1 x Gold, 1 x Bronze 2024 Chromatic Awards 2nd Place 2024 TIFA 1 x Silver, 1 x Bronzee 2024 Monochrome Awards 1st Place 2023 Monochrome Awards 3rd Place 2023 reFocus Awards Gold Medal 2023 Rookery Bay Best in Show 2023 FAPA 1st Place 2023 FMoPA 2nd Place, 3rd Place 2023 PX3 1 x Bronze 2023 ND Awards 2nd Place 2023 B&W Spider Awards 2nd Place 2023 Chromatic Awards 2nd Place 2023 BIFA 1 x Bronze 2023 TIFA 1 x Gold, 1 x Silver 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 2022 Monochrome Awards 2nd Place 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