FAPA Nominee

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Another Place, Crosby Beach, dramatic sky, FAPA, FAPA Nominee, fine art, horse silhouette, mono, Wiltshire sky

About this time last year I was pleased to be awarded with Bronze in the Fine Art Photography Awards; I didn’t do quite so well this year but am still pleased to have got most of the way through the competition and for my two entries, Elemental and Another Place, to be nominated for awards in the Amateur categories of Fine Art and Seascape respectively.

According to the FAPA press release there were more than 6335 submissions from 89 countries around the world. Winners were selected by a panel of international judges, including: Tim Franco, Nadia Dias, Liza Van der Stock, Matilde Gattoni, Amélie Labourdette, Valery Klamm and Pierre Abensur.

(All images are copyright to Noeline Smith)

Another Place

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Another Place, Antony Gormley, B&W, Crosby Beach, desolate, emptiness, fine art, high contrast, loneliness, mono, photography, sculpture

With my day not going according to plan I picked up the ongoing task of importing old photos into Lightroom. It can be a laborious process but every now and then the effort is rewarded, both in terms of reliving the moments but also by coming across something that, with the benefit of a growing idea of what I’m doing and a little rework, finally emerges as I’d originally hoped for.

My only visit to Crosby Beach (about four years ago) was late autumn, on a bitterly cold and windy day. The wide open sands, pounded by an icy sea beneath an insipid sky, looked bleak and uninviting; wind whipped tears from my eyes and stung sand at my face and hands and the loosely scattered figures of Antony Gormley’s ‘Another Place‘, with their stares frozen to the far horizon, compound the sense of desolation.

There’s something strangely enjoyable about ‘bad’ conditions and, with this image finally coming into it’s own, with hindsight it wasn’t such a bad day after all 🙂

(All images are copyright to Noeline Smith)