Local photographer Tara Gowen has been capturing the magic of the Nambucca Valley, her beautiful photos recently caught the eye of the team at the Nambucca Guardian News, and the result was the stunning front cover of the Nambucca Valley Visitor Guide. To read click here.
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INCREDIBLY, Tara is a totally self-taught photographer, if she finds a type of photo she wants to do, she just gets online and researches until she works out how to do it.
“I saw photos of the Milky Way and also Star Trails and I was blown away that you could photograph these relatively easy. So I read books and magazines about photography and taught myself what I needed to know,” says Tara.
“With my star trail photography, I want to try and get my viewers to wonder how it was done and to ask questions to me or to even research themselves a little to find out more. I often don’t shoot obvious locations that have been photographed a lot as well. I think this helps invoke interest in the actual photo and not purely because it is a well-known location.”
“I spent numerous hours out at night under the stars most of the time just watching while my cheap SLR film camera was shooting long exposures of the stars. I do like to sometimes get out in the garden with my macro lens and shoot a few bugs. So many small things in your garden that you never knew were there.
“My inspiration often comes from my daily travels where I may see a nice looking tree that I think would look great at night with the light from the stars trailing above it.
“Or even some rocks at the beach that when waves are crashing over them take on a whole new interesting look.
“I am also a member of a few photography groups online and there are so many great photographers locally and abroad out there that it is very hard not to draw inspiration from their great work. I love to just get out by myself at night and do a star trail.
“It is great thinking time when out late at night when everyone else is tucked up in bed asleep.
Want to see more of Tara’s work? Just go to www.facebook.com/PhotographybyTaraGowen/
and also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/photographybytaragowen/
This story first appeared in Mid North Coast Now.
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