Morning Glades of the King Valley 2025 Ed. 2 of 5

Morning mist drapes itself over the King Valley, where eucalypts rise like spectral figures, their slender forms blurred by motion.

The forest floor is heavy with the weight of morning dew—pearls of moisture trembling on fern fronds, silvering bark, and pooling in the hush of fallen leaves. Light filters through the canopy in fragile strokes, catching the cool sheen of damp earth, dissolving into soft tendrils of blue and green.

Through the slow dance of my lens, the moment unfurls—not as a fixed image, but as a sensation: the crisp kiss of morning air, the hush of mist retreating, the way the earth exhales before the warmth of day.

A fleeting breath, captured in motion.

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I am a photographic artist from the Central Goldfields of Victoria, Australia.

In 2014, I relocated from Melbourne into regional Victoria, to a rural property outside of Castlemaine. I think that living in the country has changed the way I look at and connect with the natural environment. So many of us are disconnected from nature; and we are damaging the environment at a terrifying rate. At some level, many of us are grieving all this, and through my work, I am trying to honour that grief and to create a deeper connection with the natural world around me.

From a young age, I imagined a working future in the arts, but ended up being sidelined by an international career in law and social impact. Initially working as a lawyer in top-tier firms in Australia and Hong Kong, I went on to work in the offices of State and Federal members of parliament, founded an education not-for-profit, got involved in documentary film-making and set up a social impact consulting firm.

For me, the “gift” of COVID was to make the long-overdue decision to commit to developing a full-time art practice.

I haven’t looked back.