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Travel winner: Todd Kennedy ... Todd Kennedy’s winning portfolio illustrates just how powerful the combination of a drone and stunning locations can be. Since picking up a drone in 2014, Kennedy has spent hours researching and travelling around Australia to create his images. This image of camels was taken at Cable Beach, Broome, WA. Picture: Todd Kennedy/Australian Photography magazine
1/13Travel winner: Todd Kennedy ... Todd Kennedy’s winning portfolio illustrates just how powerful the combination of a drone and stunning locations can be. Since picking up a drone in 2014, Kennedy has spent hours researching and travelling around Australia to create his images. This image of camels was taken at Cable Beach, Broome, WA. Picture: Todd Kennedy/Australian Photography magazine
Travel winner: Todd Kennedy ... By using a consistent ‘straight down’ perspective and strong geomeric lines, the series were a clear standout in the travel category. Souring Google Maps images for geometry, he found a prospective pine forest in Queensland for a shot with strong lines accented by deep late afternoon shadows. The secret to great drone imagery? “Keeping the drones charged and packed in backpacks, ready for the next adventure,” he says. Picture: Todd Kennedy/Australian Photography magazine
2/13Travel winner: Todd Kennedy ... By using a consistent ‘straight down’ perspective and strong geomeric lines, the series were a clear standout in the travel category. Souring Google Maps images for geometry, he found a prospective pine forest in Queensland for a shot with strong lines accented by deep late afternoon shadows. The secret to great drone imagery? “Keeping the drones charged and packed in backpacks, ready for the next adventure,” he says. Picture: Todd Kennedy/Australian Photography magazine
Nature winner: Neil Vincent ... Noraville based photographer Neil Vincent’s portfolio is of whale calves frolicking near Tonga. Picture: Neil Vincent/Australian Photography magazine
3/13Nature winner: Neil Vincent ... Noraville based photographer Neil Vincent’s portfolio is of whale calves frolicking near Tonga. Picture: Neil Vincent/Australian Photography magazine
Nature winner: Neil Vincent ... “The calves always want to play but often the mothers don’t,” he said. “However the mothers sometimes rest and allow the calves to play with the humans while they sleep about ten metres below. This is the best time, as the calves will swim in close, roll, stop and study their new playmates.” Picture: Neil Vincent/Australian Photography magazine
4/13Nature winner: Neil Vincent ... “The calves always want to play but often the mothers don’t,” he said. “However the mothers sometimes rest and allow the calves to play with the humans while they sleep about ten metres below. This is the best time, as the calves will swim in close, roll, stop and study their new playmates.” Picture: Neil Vincent/Australian Photography magazine
Photo of the Year winner: Tim Baskerville ... The skin contrast, the sand stuck to their bodies, the triangular composition and the natural leading lines from the looks: it’s the small details that make Tim Baskerville’s shot the clear winner in our Photograph of the Year category. Baskerville says the image was taken on his last day in Madagascar, where he had been living and working for three months for an organisation called Mercy Ships. “Across from the port was a stretch of beach which was always full of life,” he said. “I came across three kids using a small mound of sand for a kicker. These little Malagasy ninjas blew me away with their skills, and I sat there for an hour mesmerised. After I had taken the shot I showed them and they looked at each other and just burst out laughing. It was a great moment.” Picture: Tim Baskerville/Australian Photography magazine
5/13Photo of the Year winner: Tim Baskerville ... The skin contrast, the sand stuck to their bodies, the triangular composition and the natural leading lines from the looks: it’s the small details that make Tim Baskerville’s shot the clear winner in our Photograph of the Year category. Baskerville says the image was taken on his last day in Madagascar, where he had been living and working for three months for an organisation called Mercy Ships. “Across from the port was a stretch of beach which was always full of life,” he said. “I came across three kids using a small mound of sand for a kicker. These little Malagasy ninjas blew me away with their skills, and I sat there for an hour mesmerised. After I had taken the shot I showed them and they looked at each other and just burst out laughing. It was a great moment.” Picture: Tim Baskerville/Australian Photography magazine
Landscape winner: Andy Smith ... Like most passionate landscape photographers, it’s a love of nature that helped New South Wales’ Andy Smith gravitate to photography. This image was taken at Motukeike, West Coast, New Zealand. Picture: Andy Smith/Australian Photography magazine
6/13Landscape winner: Andy Smith ... Like most passionate landscape photographers, it’s a love of nature that helped New South Wales’ Andy Smith gravitate to photography. This image was taken at Motukeike, West Coast, New Zealand. Picture: Andy Smith/Australian Photography magazine
Landscape winner: Andy Smith ... Andy Smith says that he always tries to convey a sense of drama in his images through the use of powerful foregrounds and moody skies. This shot was taken at the Canoe Pool, Newcastle Ocean Baths. Picture: Andy Smith/Australian Photography magazine
7/13Landscape winner: Andy Smith ... Andy Smith says that he always tries to convey a sense of drama in his images through the use of powerful foregrounds and moody skies. This shot was taken at the Canoe Pool, Newcastle Ocean Baths. Picture: Andy Smith/Australian Photography magazine
Overall winner and portrait winner: Helen Whittle ... Helen Whittle’s portraits of her seven-year-old daughter Minnie are at first strikingly simple, yet contain a complexity of emotion that only comes from the closest of relationships between a photographer and their sitter. The runner-up in the Portrait category last year, Whittle’s images are all taken with natural light, and capture the quiet, sensitive and intense side of Minnie’s personality, something Whittle says she rarely catches glimpses of. Picture: Helen Whittle/Australian Photography magazine
8/13Overall winner and portrait winner: Helen Whittle ... Helen Whittle’s portraits of her seven-year-old daughter Minnie are at first strikingly simple, yet contain a complexity of emotion that only comes from the closest of relationships between a photographer and their sitter. The runner-up in the Portrait category last year, Whittle’s images are all taken with natural light, and capture the quiet, sensitive and intense side of Minnie’s personality, something Whittle says she rarely catches glimpses of. Picture: Helen Whittle/Australian Photography magazine
Overall winner and portrait winner: Helen Whittle ... Picking up her DSLR after her first child was born in 2008, Whittle says she loves to capture her children, animals and nature and is inspired by natural and dramatic light. Her style is mainly black and white, and she aims to produce simple, emotive and authentic images. Picture: Helen Whittle/Australian Photography magazine
9/13Overall winner and portrait winner: Helen Whittle ... Picking up her DSLR after her first child was born in 2008, Whittle says she loves to capture her children, animals and nature and is inspired by natural and dramatic light. Her style is mainly black and white, and she aims to produce simple, emotive and authentic images. Picture: Helen Whittle/Australian Photography magazine
Junior winner: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys ... Sixteen-year-old Shinaya Rose-Humphreys portfolio was taken at Queensland’s Harlin Spring Spectacular, a Barrel Racing jackpot where she also competed. Her love of horses was the inspiration behind this action-packed series. Picture: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys/Australian Photography magazine
10/13Junior winner: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys ... Sixteen-year-old Shinaya Rose-Humphreys portfolio was taken at Queensland’s Harlin Spring Spectacular, a Barrel Racing jackpot where she also competed. Her love of horses was the inspiration behind this action-packed series. Picture: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys/Australian Photography magazine
Junior winner: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys ... By avoiding generic front on shots and shooting at a low-angle, Rose-Humphreys has brought the viewer right into the action. The red dust, the heat, and above all the energy of the riders and their animals made this a clear winner in the junior category. She says both her and her camera was covered in dust after the shots. Picture: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys/Australian Photography magazine
11/13Junior winner: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys ... By avoiding generic front on shots and shooting at a low-angle, Rose-Humphreys has brought the viewer right into the action. The red dust, the heat, and above all the energy of the riders and their animals made this a clear winner in the junior category. She says both her and her camera was covered in dust after the shots. Picture: Shinaya Rose-Humphreys/Australian Photography magazine
Black and White winner: Yiannis Yiasaris ... Born in Greece and having lived in Australia for the past 15 years, Yiannis Yiasaris is a self-taught street photographer. His images reveal smart observations of life in densely-populated urban spaces, with bold juxtaposition and challenging, dynamic angles. Picture: Yiannis Yiasaris/Australian Photography magazine
12/13Black and White winner: Yiannis Yiasaris ... Born in Greece and having lived in Australia for the past 15 years, Yiannis Yiasaris is a self-taught street photographer. His images reveal smart observations of life in densely-populated urban spaces, with bold juxtaposition and challenging, dynamic angles. Picture: Yiannis Yiasaris/Australian Photography magazine
Black and White winner: Yiannis Yiasaris ,,, Yiasaris describes his love of street photography coming from a natural curiosity about people going about their everyday life and a passion to tell their stories through his pictures. All his images were taken in Australia. Picture: Yiannis Yiasaris/Australian Photography magazine
13/13Black and White winner: Yiannis Yiasaris ,,, Yiasaris describes his love of street photography coming from a natural curiosity about people going about their everyday life and a passion to tell their stories through his pictures. All his images were taken in Australia. Picture: Yiannis Yiasaris/Australian Photography magazine
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