Seascape nominee

‘Toluncan’ is the indigenous Boonwurrung name for Anderson Inlet, an area of ever-changing tidal mudflats, fed from the east by the Tarwin River, exiting to Bass Strait in the west near Inverloch on the Victorian coast. It was here that the first dinosaur bones were discovered in Australia. Views from the sky often reveal otherwise unseen colours and patterns and from a viewpoint of only fifty metres above the surface, you can enter a world of almost dreamlike images. On an early morning in July 2022, the tide was out, revealing a series of mesmerising patterns of blue water, brown shallows and sand ripples, forming unique images which changed forever with the incoming tide. The Bunurong people have occupied this area for tens of thousands of years and I think about how the patterns they may have seen, even so long ago, were also unique.

Peter Harlow is an aerial abstract photographer, beginning his practice in late 2021. From a viewpoint of less than fifty metres above the surface, nature paints its own abstract images, unique and perfect. These images are constantly changing with the wind, rain and seasons. In this sense, his photographs represent impermanence and fragility. By presenting a different view of the landscape, his intention is to cause you to pause, consider and reflect on the changing and transformative beauty of nature.