Gold / 2024 / Press / Nature/Environmental

• 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.
I find the world is full of opportunities to capture special instances in time, in different lights, not always seen by others.

Awards Lake Macquarie National Exhibition of Digital Photography 2018 Honourable Mention