Dennys Photo Gallery: Beautiful Australia

From Denny:  What a wonderful find is this photographer from Australia. She gives us a travelogue and history of the images she recorded of her country. The landscape exhibits a wild beauty, drenched in color.

Some excellent landscape photos and some penetrating character portraits are part of her collection over at flickr.  These photos of Australia go far beyond the usual tourism photos.  In fact, Australian travel and tourism should employ this photographer.  It sure makes me want to hop a plane and endure the excessively long ride from America just to see Australia!  There is a lot more to Australia than the Great Barrier Reef so often advertised.

But if you can't get time off to see Australia, this photographer sure makes you feel like you are there. Along the way, as you view her images, you get drawn into the culture and people of Australia. Enjoy the journey through her eyes!  I've included some of her observations, cultural information and comments.

All photos are from Dreamscope Photography @ flickr.






Australian Canola Field photo by Dreamscope Photography @ flickr, All Rights Reserved with embed code available

Canola is popular in America as cooking oil and for salad dressings as it has a neutral flavor, not overpowering the flavor of the ingredients in a dish.

People: Shelby, a friends daughter

Shelby, a friend's daughter, originally uploaded by denny.lyon.

From my portrait phase:

On a fall picnic with her family and us, Shelby was busy showing off her athletic ability - walking on logs over the stream. She's all grown up now and out of college.

People: The woman and the rose

Photo by Denny Lyon

My friend Robin at the end of the fall afternoon when we were shooting. On the way back to the car she saw these perfect roses and wanted to pose with them - so she did! I like to be spontaneous and offer my people the opportunity for ideas of how they would like to be portrayed. The synergy is awesome!

People: Robin's portrait in the trees

Photo by Denny Lyon

My friend Robin was just 19 years old here. Her favorite hobby was the Renaissance Festival and created her own costumes. She was six feet tall and yet didn't feel pretty.

So, since I was in my portrait and art phase I convinced her I could show her just how pretty she really was. We spent one fall afternoon at Stone Mountain, Georgia state park and the rest is history. She looked lovely and her confidence grew. That was in the mid-80's.

At this time I never used a flash for portraits whether they were indoors or outdoors. I just worked with the natural lighting no matter what the conditions. People are more relaxed to model for portraits too if you aren't sticking bright lights in their faces making them uncomfortable and artificial. This autumn light under the canopy of trees that early afternoon was soft and wonderful!