NZPhotographer Issue 56, June 2022

I have been doing photography for a little under ten years, getting my
first camera in late 2012. Since then, I have had an immense amount
of fun, as well as experiencing a fair degree of frustration as I have
gradually started to get to grips with a variety of photographic genres.
My favourite genre? Well, in all honesty, I think I would have to say my
favourite is whatever genre I am working with at the time.
www.noellebennettphotography.com
A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
My photographic journey has given me some very special experiences
in lots of different ways, and many have happened as a result of posing
the ‘What if...?’ question to myself. It’s at times like these that I find myself
thinking of something Vincent Munier said, which was, «When you reveal
everything, you kill imagination. I live in a world of imagination and that is
where I want to stay».
And that is how it was with this series. I had rediscovered the joy of
photographing flowers after far too long ignoring them in favour of so
many other apparently more exciting subjects and techniques. The sun
was low in the sky, casting some parts of the flowers into sharp relief whilst
almost totally obscuring other areas of them and, in doing so, adding just
a hint of mystery. The details and shapes that were visible, and in many
cases accentuated by this selective lighting, were simply stunning. And
what about the parts that were not revealed? Well, maybe I’ll just leave
those to your imagination!
NZPhotographer
June 2022
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