Abstract nominee

Lake Weering is a hypersaline body of water about 20 kilometres north of Colac in central Victoria. Its coloured algal growths, which thrive in the salinity and summer heat, are usually hues of pink. However, they can also appear in many other colours, depending on the depth of the water and the time of day – where the sun’s angle reflects from the bed of the lake.

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.