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RUNNER-UP
PHOTO OF THE YEAR
MORNING DELIGHT
1. Emma Frater
2. Luke Mackenzie
3. Margot Hughes
4. Harman Singh Heer 5. Heather Rose
6. Tim Mulholland
7. Santosh Mitra
8. Jarrod Vero
8. Gergo Rugli
10. Gergo Rugli
11. Samuel Markham 12. Tracy Lees
13. Matt Fieldes
14. Chris Dixon
15. Linda KY Wei
15. Kate HH Yang
15. Jacqueline Hammer 15. Cameron Meacham 19. Andrew Dickman 19. Amanda Luker
PHOTO OF THE YEAR TOP 20
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LUKE MACKENZIE
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Victorian photographer Luke Mackenzie cap- tured his runner-up image Morning Delight in early 2019 when his work had him driving the Great Ocean Road quite frequently. He’s done the seemingly impossible with this photo – shooting a location we’ve seen hundreds of
times in a unique way.
“I’d been to the Apostles countless times
at sunrise to shoot, but I’d never seen it in these conditions with the cloud rolling off the cliffs, then down and across the ocean like that,” he explains.
“You can see in the image the thick fog about to come across in the background. This mo- ment only lasted a few minutes before the whole place was covered in fog and the lighting had completely changed to a dreary morning.”
“One of my favourite things about this image is I took it in summer in January, so the sunrise was pretty early, and the lookout platform was essentially empty apart from one other guy who witnessed this with me – I think it’s something quite unique.”
WHAT THE JUDGES’ SAID SHANNON WILD: This is such a pleas- ing image. It’s well balanced, not only in the composition, but also its colour with the greens in the foreground off- setting the pastels in the rest of the im- age. Luke has executed this well – es- pecially to get the movement of the fog and water while keeping the shadows rich and full of texture.
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