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Story Behind the Print: Watermarks

Paul Hoelen spends much of the year travelling around Australia photographing landscapes and teaching photography workshops.

When he isn’t travelling he calls Tasmania home.

From the photographer, Paul Hoelen:

After recently teaching a workshop in Karijini National Park in Western Australia he had the opportunity to explore the area.

I decided to hire a car and set off for a 3000km solo trip up the coast to the stunning Shark Bay World Heritage Area with a clear goal to capture some aerial images up there.

The day I arrived, despite not having rained for almost 6 months it just started pelting down with no end in sight!

With no opportunity to fly whatsoever.

I was on the phone three times a day to the airport with a plane on hold at 20 mins notice for any window in the weather, yet day after day after day, the rain kept coming!

Just as I was about to give up on the very last afternoon I could spare, a sudden window opened up.

I raced out there, helped pull off the door and blasted out across the incredible vista into what tuned out to be even beyond my wildest hopes photographically.

Easily the most incredible aerial landscape I’d seen.

It meant I had to do the full 1500km return drive in one day, but it was totally worth it!”

AS SEEN IN THE CHANNEL 9’s THE BLOCK

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