From the Photographer: Marty Shoo
Every summer bushfire blazes a trail through our beautiful landscapes. It’s raw, often violent and mostly quite devastating. But it’s also natural, a necessity for the new life of many plants, a catalyst for change, a clean out, a renewal.
For those that have visited fire effected forests will have seen that new growth is surprising rapid and the landscape is soon enough green again. Recently I had a rare opportunity to visit (with permission) a recently burnt forest in the Grampians National Park. I wanted to capture that moment when the clean out was complete.
That complete cleanse, that brief time before the new green growth rapidly consumes the landscape again. Often it’s only days, two weeks at best. So to many this image could be one of devastation, where as I see a new beginning.
About Marty
Marty Schoo is a landscape influenced photographer based in the beautiful Grampians region in Western Victoria. In recent times he’s received recognition for his personal landscape work with award success at the International Loupe Awards, the Head On Landscape Prize, and capped of recently with a rare gold with distinction award at the AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA).
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