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Carolyn Donnelly I live on the coast of New South Wales in Australia. My love is the natural environment, especially the beach and rocky shores. Every day the foreshore environment changes and becomes a new work of art. It is a place of extreme contrasts - complete stillness next to constant movement, extreme dry within inches of extreme wet, the smooth of the ocean lapping the rough textured rocks and sand, complete starkness next to a party of colour. I was given an SLR camera in 1987 and that fueled an intense interest in photography. I studied both black and white and colour photography in Paddington, Sydney in 1989. At that stage I loved black and white photography because I could develop my own pictures easily. I remember days being swallowed in the dark room as I watched with excitement as each image came into being. At that time I was teaching the operation of computers and software. Little did I know at the time that these two worlds would one day converge. With the introduction of digital camera technology I have been able combine my photography with my computer software skills and have experienced a new sense of freedom in my aristic endeavours. I have swapped the excitement of the dark room image with the excitement of the computer image. I still love traditional photography and many of my photographs are 'as taken'. However, my current passion is to alter my photographs to bring out particular colours and to create a more surreal and sometimes abstract image. |