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Blue Kimono Takamatsu 2019 7626

by Mark Van Veen

This image is from an ongoing series, Point of Return, exploring reflections in our urban environment and how they alter our view of the world. Capturing scenes with reflective surfaces that adjust the day to day manoeuvres of humanity to suit their own version of reality. The photographs create glimpses of ephemeral landscapes; shifting through fractured reflections and perspectives.
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Cacti Sapien

by Todd Kennedy

How used to we are, our bodies standing, sitting, or lounging about. A bend here, a flex there, we may adopt many shapes that deceive our brains when our eyes are unaccustomed to what they may see. I am pleased to introduce Ms Cacti Sapien.
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Life's Uncertainty

by Tony Harding

This image encapsulates the uncertainty within one’s life. For one, around the next corner, a darkness, an uncertainty - presents itself. Or, one may choose to confront the uncertainty of life’s events with others. But uncertainty prevails. The brick wall reflects stability and certainty. But is this just a mirage?
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Ricefields

by Jenny Davidson

Rice fields. Amongst the water in the rice fields a piece of timber had fallen in the water forming a background for the grasses growing out of the water. The patterns created reminded my of willow trees in winter on a much smaller scale, the fact that I still don’t know exactly what the plants are makes it more intriguing for me, sometimes it is good not to know but just observe and wonder.
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Things do not stay

by Susan Brunialti

Buddhist teachings and practice engage an ethos of all that exists is impermanent, everything changes and eventually ceases to exist. Photography documents the present as a future past, collecting moments and holding them with an implied promise of immortality. In truth, a photographic image reinforces the transience of things by only capturing a fragment of time. By embracing the passage of time, impermanence is highlighted as inescapable. Encountering loss, I am interested in exploring the impermanence of humanity; thoughts, emotions, objects and loved ones, things do not stay.
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The Hairy Panic, Untitled 15

by Sophie Dumaresq

The Hairy Panic is series of photographs of a Land Art Installation that took place out in the windswept grasslands surrounding Lake George, NSW, Australia. The Installation consisted of pink hybrid tumbleweeds made of steel and human hair placed within the drought stricken yet romantic landscape. The name of the work comes from the 2016 invasion of the Australian town Wangaratta by “Pancium effuse” a native species of tumbleweed. An overgrowth of the human labelled weed occurs due to dry and windy conditions combined with soil toxicity levels that causes the plant to thrive.
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The Price of Water

by Anne O'Connor

Rainwater is free, but if it declines, rivers dry up & earth suffers. A cost far beyond water ensues, as hope dwindles, waiting for the life giving gift of water. We all need it, this blood of the land, running through the veins of the entire planetary system. It is priceless. The black spots on the patterned background are created by raindrops on sand. The hand stitching represents the blood of both humanity & the land, in their struggle for survival, as the planet dries up beneath them without rain, in this time of drought.
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20191102 Roos Songlines

by Roger Skinner

Roo’s Songlines reflect back the sky’s …repeated heat.
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Helena and Florek

by Sue Joy

It's toxic out there, sometimes the despair overpowers and good does not always triumph. Become vigilant and be prepared to terminate with ultimate damage.
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The Black Crow

by Brian Rope

For many people, the black crow is a symbol of cunning, death and war. Others say crows fly towards the four directions as a guide through life's journey. And yet others believe the crow imparts wisdom about change and demonstrates that change is not to be feared. To illustrate this, I went looking for a crow alongside a "dead" tree. When a crow flew low near this tree, I made my image. The tree later would come to life again as Winter turned to Spring. It did not die. There was nothing to fear.
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Jupiterious

by Michelle Thompson

Everything is not what it seems. Light can be intriguing and captivating. My work takes light to highlight ordinary objects to reinterpret into the unusual. Taking man made objects to represent the natural world. Jupiterious takes the reflection created by wrapping a phone torch in cellophane to recreate the mysterious world of the solar system.
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Life's Journey

by James McKenna

Through life's journey I have clung onto anyone who would offer me a life line. Through waters calm and turbulent holding on but giving nothing in return. With my friend around me I now find myself washed up, discarded on the beach, thrown aside by the sea of life. My journey has now come to it's natural ending.
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Youth and Wisdom

by Tracy Lees

A photo of my 3 year old mother is being held by her 83 year old hands. I am attempting to show the beginning and the end of life. The eloquence of her hands and arms tell a story of age and wisdom that her youthful face cannot comprehend.
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Delighted Vertebra

by Judy Parker

As part of an exhibition last year, I developed some images of commonly recognised forms, presented in a way that communicated human emotions. The specifically-selected angle of this subject interprets the central hollow of the spinal column as an enthusiastically smiling mouth and even the associated "eyes" of this animal bone, the light catching on cobwebs in the cavities, suggests eye contact and recognisable emotion in an inanimate object. The use of monochrome rather than colour further distances the subject from lifeless bone to identifiable human emotion. This is a photograph about a feeling and "mind-flipping" reality.
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Tap Dancers

by Nola Sumner

And just like that they danced into my life. This entry is another from my ever challenging project of capturing staircases in Apple stores. This is another view - looking up on an ever moving world. As they skipped up and down the stairs my position made the sounds of feet on glass, ever the stage. It was another time, it was childhood bought back, a very small me hiding under the stairs.
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Age Before Beauty

by Tracy Lees

My 84 year old mother is holding a photo of herself taken when she was 19. She was beautiful, young with a promising life ahead. At 20, she became a mother, endured domestic abuse and mental illness. Today, time has stripped her life bare, illustrated by the way she is standing bare in a minimalist surrounding. Now her life and decisions are her own. I hope this photo displays that with every sag, wrinkle and spot, Age triumphs and bursts through the confines of youth and beauty. I wanted to show that age is a gift greater than beauty.
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On the edge of consciousness

by Julie Begg

Some random intermittent health episodes are hard to articulate or express when a health professional asks you to describe how an “episode” feels. Static, still, yet, a motion of blur, running at you and into each other. A whirl of energy, that seems stuck, not tipping, the feeling of a sudden jolted fall without any movement. How do you express that verbally. You don't. You do it with art.
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The Party is Over

by Andrew Railton

Viewed through an Australian lens, the only eyes I have, I reflect on how my world appeared to me, and compare that with what I see in Australia today. Have we gone too far. While technological progress has many positive benefits for our nation and human kind, that technological progress has changed the way we think, and in turn, changed the way we act. Is the party over? Have we gone too far? Should we have slowed down a little. Or am I simply getting old?
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20190918 Roos Songlines

by Roger Skinner

across that dust seeking relief from misery the tedious relentlessness droughts firm grip has them in its ties roo’s Songlines reflect back the sky’s …repeated heat. Their dreaming is so vast and the trackless land surrenders to the sky’s emptiness as they trace and retrace criss and crossed lost in emptiness of broken land.
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Litter

by Ian Terry

lit·ter (lĭt′ər) n. 1. Carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper. 2. Fallen leaves and other decaying organic matter that make up the top layer of a forest floor. We are surrounded by litter. Natural and human made, it covers our planet, some of it for good, some for ill. This image is an investigation of litter in all its forms and asks us to consider what it means to create waste.
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Skinbark (Textures of Life Series)

by Lyndall Gerlach

For many months I have been exploring visual textures, capturing their stories & allowing my mind to suggest to the viewer the many strange similarities of life I see everyday. In this image ‘Skin-Bark’, I show the physical morphing of the similar textures of the aged craggy bark into the aged craggy skin of the old hand. Both, preserving the inner structures and sharing the same visual qualities that indicate the flow of the fluids of life. Age and aging are also emotionally & visually explored.
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Broken

by John Spicer

I noticed this object blowing back and forth on the ground, I picked it up, it was exquisite, and with upmost respect, it looked hand painted, almost from out of the "Dreaming". About 50mm by 30mm at it's widest, the leading edge was broken and showing an ugly departure from the thorax, it's last flight!. A sizeable Moth to which it's name still eludes me Now a safe treasured item.
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The Altar of Time

by David Bignell

The Swords of Damocles have made their cut, no longer representing impending doom but now, with almost surgical precision, swathes through the world's communities. Our individual and collective mortality is being tested by this morally blind enemy - it's only a matter of time before each of us is confronted with our turn to lie on the unforgiving altar of time.
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Aftermath Cadgee 2020 No.1

by Ian Skinner

My dear, and long time friends lost nearly everything in the New Years Eve fires in 2020. This view shows the ruins of the historic timber church where they initially lived, where they raised their babies, where we partied during my visits, where they later played music and gave shelter to itinerant folk. The ruined wheelbarrow speak to their industry and the fallen branch reaches out ...
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No longer needed

by Russell Monson

As the dairy industry adapts to change, and agricultural land is subsumed by urban sprawl, many of our old cow sheds are disappearing. These were often built by their farmer owners using locally sourced materials and fitted with equipment long since superseded. This image is from a series stimulated by the need to record and preserve these buildings for historical purposes. In camera multiple exposure provides a vehicle to create images which record and preserve, and simultaneously stimulate reflection and speculation.
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Aftermath Cadgee 2020 No.3

by Ian Skinner

After the catastrophic bushfires of New Years Eve 2020, my dear friend Richard encouraged me to bring my camera on an initial visit. The destruction was overwhelming and appeared almost in a frozen state before the huge cleanup task moved into full swing. Here we view the collapsed roof of his workshop where heat-buckled steel lies in stasis and the veil of the roof sheeting is almost beautifully lofted like a pleated skirt.
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Micro Plastic Planet

by Todd Kennedy

Plastic is one of the most insidious wastes on the planet. The Average person ingests 90-120,000 microplastics per year with unknown health consequences. Each plastic sheet used by the 24 subjects in this project is the equivalent of 24 weeks of consumption of microplastics by the average human! The purpose of this scene is to humanise the plastic crisis and to visualise the invisible by making the scale of microplastic tangible.
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Tree Break

by Mieke Boynton

When we stand together, we stand strong - we become people who give and receive strength from each other. When we stand apart, we weather the storms alone, and although some rare people have such strong roots that the storms cannot break them, many do not, and end up becoming an unrecognisable version of themselves, fragile and splintered.
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Small People Big World

by Anne Pappalardo

The human perception of our place in this world is unquestionably as the world-dominating species. Our influence on this planet is all consuming, from over-population to pollution to climate change. How and when did we come so bold? When did we start to view ourselves as the puzzle, rather than a piece in it? This image aims to scale our perceptions of who we are in the world, and put us back in our relative place.
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Rainbow Serpent

by Sandy Mahon

Representative of Ariel Photography, an image of peeling bark from the Spotted Gum Tree, (Eucalyptus Maculata). This image is an interpretation of the story of the Rainbow Serpent, creator of all things. It gave life to our land, carving out landforms, rivers and waterholes. Eucalyptus Maculata is a very important environmental asset. It provides food and shelter for many indigenous mammals and birds. These two elements, the creator of life and the maintainer of life are an incredibly powerful combination
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Australian Dream

by Andrew Railton

Viewed through an Australian lens, the only eyes I have, I reflect on how my world appeared to me in my childhood, and compare that with what I see in Australia today. Have we gone too far? While technological progress has many positive benefits for our nation and human kind, that technological progress has changed the way we think, and in turn, changed the way we act. What is the cost of that change? What have we lost? What is the Australian Dream? Or am I simply getting old and redundant?
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Escape

by Nola Sumner

Up, down, which way to go. Life's choices can be said to be the same, left or right, which path do you choose to go. But here, if these choices get too much for you, there is an open door - another choice - an escape from life's decisions.
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Beige Chair

by Louise Alexander

'Beige Chair' is about not wanting to be seen. Times when you just want to hide. In a world where we all feel the need and the pressure to be visible and accountable there is little room to hide. This image was made in honour of the artist's father who loathed the colour beige. He believed people start to wear beige as they get older, as if the colour was running out of them.
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Dumpster Sketchbook: Waterside

by Judy Parker

Recently I took a series of photographs of the side panels of a large open container at a local recycling centre. The markings had a wonderfully strong graphic quality, red rust-lines on a silver-painted surface: a calligraphy of wear and tear. When I processed my images, I was intrigued by the way sections of the random patterns suggested a series of semi-abstract coastal landscapes, each quite different. I modified three of these to reinforce the reference and combined them as a triptych. Our minds are not limited to the literal. They can equally re-identify and re-imagine.
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APSCON BALLARAT 2019

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