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My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Australia | Sunday, October 17, 2010 | 5 photos

It may sound unusual, but I like fog. When the weather looks promising, I pack a mattress into the car and go and spend the night in the country, hoping to wake up early to a mist covered landscape. These photographs were taken on the road from Yass to Wee Jasper in New South Wales. In terms of holding its fog, this small valley of about one kilometre in length would have to be among Australia's best. Even as late as noon, when the countryside in all directions is warm and clear, this particular section, with its labyrinth style road that carves through the hillside, remains entombed in a sea of fog. The unexpectedness of this area holds a special appeal, for it appears along a mediocre road that meanders through ordinary, almost anonymous farmland, and without warning one finds oneself briefly and suddenly immersed in another world. Shadows are like silhouettes and take on three dimensional effects, light is reflected and becomes pastel like, and the surroundings are concealed and then revealed, making this ordinary place seem other worldly. I've driven here when the fog has lifted and I can barely recognise it.

I love photographing the world's far away places, and I think my biggest strength is in seeing the unusual or unique in what others might pass over as everyday places.