Fusion Photography | Artist
Fusion Photography
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23.01.2022 Woke up to some good news this morning - my image "the Phoenix" won 1st place in the Creative | Landscape category at this years ShutterFest Image Competition.
23.01.2022 Briege at Hotel Realm Canberra
22.01.2022 The Australian Professional Photography Awards are over for another year. I was very delighted to receive 2 Silver awards and 2 Silver with Distinction awards in the aerial landscapes category. Here are the images...
22.01.2022 Nina & Lloyd in Barton - Canberra Spring Wedding
22.01.2022 Last weekend we shot a lovely wedding at Milton and popped in to visit my brother at Bateman's Bay on the way home, and got this shot. Better Photo Workshops
21.01.2022 Dead horse gap, Snow Mountains
20.01.2022 So just to do little bragging... I was recently a finalist in the Landscape category of the ACT Epson AIPP professional photography awards - I received 2 x Silver and 2 x Silver with Distinction Awards for these 4 images. Unfortunately I was pipped for the overall title by my good friend and colleague Geoff Comfort, who I do the Floriade workshops with. I couldn't have been runner up (along with another good friend Kris Arnold, who took out the Travel category) to a nicer person and better photographer!
19.01.2022 Have just started a new Instagram page to feature images from my personal project I call "Kaleidographs." Please visit and follow for more like this: https://www.instagram.com/kaleidographs/
19.01.2022 So finally caught up on things now that we've returned from our trip to Europe. I have divided the very long travel journal into individual cities to make it easier to dip in and out of specific places. Here is the main page with all the links: https://fusion.exposure.co Here are the stats for our trip: Countries visited - 3 Cities, towns and Villages visited - 35... Flights - 4 Train trips - 32 Boat & Ferry trips - 10 Buses - 14 Subway/Metro/Tram rides - 8 Funiculars - 5 Taxis - 2 Car hire - 1 Kilometres walked - 1,098 km Flights of stairs climbed - 2,226 Long romantic walks - lost count See more
18.01.2022 For more beautiful photos of Italy visit our travel journal: https://fusion.exposure.co/ben-melindas-european-odyssey
18.01.2022 The ever popular Floriade workshops that I run with Geoff Comfort each year are on again starting next weekend. Tickets are now available at Ticketek. This year they are running from 6:30am-9:30am so you get to go in early before all the crowds and while the light is still soft. There are 10 dates to choose from as they are running every Sat & Sun morning over the 5 weekends. Get in fast as they often book out quickly. https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx
17.01.2022 We lost a wonderful member of the Canberra photography community last night. A great character and an inspiration. He will be sorely missed. This is to help Mallie's mum fly to Australia to be with her at this time. Please help if you can....
16.01.2022 Kaija & John at Weston Park
14.01.2022 I felt very privileged this week to be among 15 photographers to have one of my APPA images selected for the AIPP Luminous Project. The other 14 photographers are an extraordinary group of legends, Masters and Grand Masters of Photography, so someone must have made a mistake including me in there, but I am so happy to be included and donate my print for auction. The Luminous Project is an initiative to raise funds to support the AIPP's philanthropy effort. The goal of the Pr...oject is to assist with education of students through study grants and to build a fund to assist the industry in the future with advocacy and philanthropy. Here are the details from the AIPP Website: Want to own a piece of #bestAPPAever? The 2018 Luminous Collection is now up for auction! 15 stunning images from this year's APPA have been donated by the photographers. These fifteen amazing images from some of the institutes’ best and brightest will be available for bidding until 5pm AEST Monday 17th September 2018 on the AIPP Galabid site. Place your bid at https://galabid.com/aipp to help raise money for the AIPP's Luminous Fund. For more details on how to bid: http://aipp.cmail20.com///EC7A3A5DBF0608427EEA1DAE616D4B3C
12.01.2022 My image "Kaleidograph 114" has been selected as a Silver Medal Award winner and will be exhibited at the San Fanciso Bay International Photo Show, published on... the Bokeh Bokeh Photo website, and will be displayed during the Celebration Reception on September 7 at the ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, California. See more
11.01.2022 Come and see us next Sunday at the Federal Golf Club Wedding Fair! And check out this excellent location for your wedding day. The best Canberra views and service.
11.01.2022 FINAL CHANCE TO BOOK FOR THE WINTER WORKSHOP A fantastic photography retreat at one of Australia's most iconic coastal towns. Immerse yourself in beautiful land...scapes and seascapes, as well as practical masterclasses in camera craft, art theory and composition. With the guidance of award-wining master photographer Ben Kopilow (who was recently crowned Creative Landscape Photographer of the Year at Shutterfest 2018), you will enjoy a relaxing, yet stimulating, weekend that will inspire you and improve your photography. BOOKINGS CLOSE END OF NEXT WEEK...
09.01.2022 Composition Masterclass - 3 December 2017 An all day workshop to immerse yourself in the science, art and psychology of composition and aesthetics. Expand your visual awareness and vocabulary. Learn the tools at your disposal for creating more powerful images. Lectures in composition will be interspersed with practical photography time to apply the principles learned. There will also be a critique session/group discussion at the end of the day to provide feedback on the image...s taken. Whether a beginner or professional, composition is at the heart of the way we communicate through images. Make sure you have an excellent grounding in this essential foundation to the visual medium. For further information: https://www.betterphotoworkshops.com.au/composition-masterc
09.01.2022 For anyone interested in following our trip to Italy & France, we will be doing a daily photo journal of our travels. Click the link and subscribe down the bottom of the page to receive notifications of new entries:
07.01.2022 Well, WOW, what a wonderful and exhausting week it’s been. On Friday I shot my last wedding of the season for a beautiful couple, finishing at 10pm, then got u...p at 6:30am for two days of judging on Sunday and Monday for the ACT/NSW Epson AIPP Professional Photography Awards. This year I shared Chairman of Jurors duty with my NSW counterpart Anni Payne, (thanks Annie) who helped show me the ropes. Unfortunately in this role I was unable to do any actual judging which I love, but I did get to do a LOT of panel chairing for the judging panels. Between that and helping with the PPY judging and packing up it was very two very long 12 hour days. It was so lovely to host our NSW colleagues this years in Canberra and to meet our fellow NSW council members and catch up with many interstate colleagues. By Tuesday I was wrecked and also sick with the flu so unfortunately missed our awards presentation dinner on Tuesday night. So sad I couldn’t be there but congratulations to all the category winners and to Jeremy Byrnes for taking out the title of ACT Professional Photographer of the year for his amazing and creative family portraiture work. Thanks too to Kelly Tunney for recording some video footage which I was able to watch from bed and to Nathalie Hicks for the wonderful photos posted today. I entered Illustrative and Landscape, and was a finalist in both categories. I was beaten by two superior photographers and fellow council members who were the worthy winner - Lori Cicchini in Illustrative and Geoff Comfort in landscape. Congratulation you two! I feel very honoured to be a runner up to these amazingly talented and hard working creatives. However I did achieve some great individual print awards for the photos in the gallery below: Jamberoo Cemetery - Gold Award Yoda - Silver with Distinction Award The Phoenix - Silver with Distinction Award The Wizard - Silver with Distinction Award Wood Spirits - Silver with Distinction Award Footprints - Silver Award Rust - Silver Award I also entered a couple of images into this years Shutterfest Competition in the US and my image The Phoenix took out first prize in the Creative Landscape category. This morning I received this lovely piece of bling in the mail which is going to look great in the office! All in all a very satisfying week that I’m still recovering from! Thanks again to the wonderful AIPP team in the ACT for putting on such a great awards event. And thanks to my lovely wife Melinda Kopilow, for constant support and pushing me to enter in the dark times when I am full of self-doubt and feel inadequate to do so.
07.01.2022 Wild brumbies in Kosciusko National Park near Talbingo.
06.01.2022 Planning a new landscape photography weekend workshop at Kiama soon. Did some location scouting over the long weekend. Better Photo Workshops
05.01.2022 A recent wedding we shot of the lovely couple Caylee and Nick has been featured on Easy Weddings: https://www.easyweddings.com.au//caylee-nicholas-rustic-c/
05.01.2022 This photo received a commended award and was a finalist in the Nature category of the Drone Awards in Siena, Italy.
05.01.2022 Recently did some photos for a friend who has opened a fantastic new Patisserie in Manuka. You must go and try some of these amazing creations... and check out the article in Her Canberra: http://hercanberra.com.au//lorange-taste-europe-arrives-m/
04.01.2022 One of my images of Tuggeranong skate park has been selected from an international range of submisisons for exhibition at the Praxis Gallery & Arts Centre, Minneapolis. It will be part of a joint exhibition of 30 images in total under the theme "The Abstract Image."
04.01.2022 Spent the weekend up at the gorgeous Terrra House Estate in Nowra photographing Rebecca & Anthony along with their precious little Chloe. #terrarahouseestate #countrywedding
03.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS: I am very excited to announce the launch of Better Photo workshops, a new photography school I have started with my colleague Geoff Comfort, an amazing commercial/aerial/architectural photographer who is also one of the rare few Grand Masters of Photography in the AIPP. Here is the website: www.betterphotoworkshops.com.au We will be adding more subjects and locations in the future and are open to ideas and suggestions. Let me know if there is a specific subject you would be interested in doing a workshop on, or a specific destination/location you would love to do a photography retreat at and we'll see if we can make it happen.
01.01.2022 Composition Masterclass - Sun 3rd Dec Composition as at the heart of everything we do as photographers. It is essential to our visual communication skills, yet it is rarely studied beyond basics like "the rule of thirds" and "leading lines." Get more thoroughly acquainted with the fascinating world of composition and the many aspects of visual vocabulary that you could be using more fully. ... This full day workshop includes 3-4 hours of in-depth compositional theory with some practical photography sessions to apply the concepts learned, as well as class discussion and critique. Subjects covered include: - Visual perception & design - Gestaldt theory - Line theory - Colour harmony - Visual balance and aesthetics Book Now - https://www.betterphotoworkshops.com.au/workshops/
01.01.2022 My results from this years AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA): 3 X Silver Awards in the Landscape Category. My fourth print (the tree) just missed out (79). Here are the images:
