Abstract nominee

This image was captured above Lake Weering in central Victoria, Australia. Not all salt lakes are pink. Depending on the time of year and type of algae in the water, colours can range from white, through yellow to orange and brown, from grey to blue. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to take this single photograph at a time when the water was rapidly changing in colour - the yellow hue was only visible from above and only for a few days.

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.