Fine Art nominee

The photographer created this image by taking 70 exposures as she walked a full circle around the tree. She then layered all the frames, one on top of the other, with varying degrees of opacity.
As a result, the darker parts of the image represent a high number of pixels - pixels recurring in numerous layers -, whereas the lighter parts of the image represent pixels only occurring in a few frames. The accumulation of pixels thereby becomes a true two-dimensional representation of the three-dimensional oak.

Hilda Champion is a German/American fine art photographer born near Munich, Germany and living in Naples, Florida since 2001.
She was brought up in Europe but spent a big part of her adult life in South and then North America, which also gave exposure to different regional aesthetics. Additionally, extensive travels around the globe provided opportunities to experience different cultures, appreciate the arts and train her eye to architecture, interior and exterior.
Hilda uses the camera as a tool to express ideas and emotions. Sometimes she records “reality”, but mostly perceived reality. Her aspiration in photography is less about showing the world as it is, but rather to release the poetry of the ordinary and help people see the un-seen. Her goal is to show an abstraction of what she sees, free of distractions. Her images are “based on a true fantasy”.
Hilda Champion’s work has been shown in national and international competitions and exhibitions and her images have won numerous awards and accolades.