Gold / 2024 / Press / Nature/Environmental

Lightning Strikes over Rural Australia

  • Prize
    Gold in Press/Nature/Environmental
  • Photographer
    Gerardine Gannon, Australia
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On this day, wild thunderstorms very quickly passed right throughout the south east of Australia, bringing unusual tropical weather for this region. It began in the mountains and I stopped beside open cattle grazing farmland near Traralgon, in the countryside to catch it as it passed over me, striking a rural shed and power lines, causing flash flash floods wherever it went. It continued to the city of Melbourne and then filtered out across the ocean.

I grew up on a farm in Australia, where I often witnessed the power of nature, both the good and the bad. I sometimes had mixed feelings that nature could be both beautiful and brutal at the same time, but it always left me in awe.
I then came to Melbourne where I worked as a designer but was interested in photography from early on. I see patterns, lines, colours and shapes that change in different lights and I take shots to forever set a place card in my memory.

Awards 2024 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Gold Winner -Press/ Nature/ Environmental

2024 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Honorable Mention – Nature/ Landscape

2024 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Honorable Mention - Nature/ Sunrise/Sunset

2024 IPA International Photography Awards 2nd Prize subcategory winner -Events/ Wedding

2024 IPA International Photography Awards 3rd Prize subcategory winner - Nature

2024 IPA International Photography Awards Juror’s Top 5

2024 International Color Awards Honorable Mention -Nature

2024 International Color Awards Honorable Mention -Silhouette

2024 APP Australian Photographic Prize Highly Commended 1

2024 APP Australian Photographic Prize Highly Commended 2

2018 Lake Macquarie National Exhibition of Digital Photography Honourable Mention

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