Seascape nominee

Australians are “girt by Sea” and the beach is a quintessential feature of the Australian psyche. We are often taken with the dramatic and colourful nature of a glorious seascape, with clouds, sea, sand and sun creating a memorable image in our minds. I too have been fascinated by the coastal view; but for me the classic ‘sharp’ view was too granular, too detailed. I set about trying to record a series of images that would reduce the complex and detailed scene into something rather more ‘essential’ – the colour palate characteristic of the time of year, season, day or climatic conditions. I used a process of image movement that causes the fine details to be lost as a horizontal blur. In a project that has lasted over three years I recorded Edithvale Beach in Victoria from the same location, with the same technique and eventually selected twelve images to represent twelve moments across “The Year at the Beach.” These images are sampled from that series.

Dr Robin Williams has had a distinguished photographic career that spans four decades on three continents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, the British Institute of Professional Photography, the Biological Photographic Association of America, and the Institute of Medical Illustrators. He holds undergraduate qualifications in both scientific and medical photography and Masters and PhD degrees in Medicine. He was a Professor of Photography for over 20 years. He has run workshops all over the world and taught and supervised hundreds of photography students at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the UK, the USA, and Australia. He has published over 70 original papers and books and delivered more than 400 conference papers. His work can be found in galleries and private venues all over the world. Now retired, Dr Williams is pursuing his passion for photography as a landscape photographer.