Weather eye
‘In winter in particular, the Grampians are a very dramatic landscape,’ said landscape photographer Marty Schoo. ‘You get a lot of cloud and there are dramatic shifts in weather. In the west beyond the mountain are only plains. Because of that, often the best light happens when the sun's setting and for five minutes the light pokes through under all the cloud and lights everything up. You’ll get columns of showers falling on the landscape but not raining where you are and you're able to capture that drama of weather. I do like my seasons.Weather's your friend as a landscape photographer.’
When he was just four, Marty’s family immigrated to Australia from the Netherlands. They settled in Bendigo where he would grow up in a household in which taking photographs was the norm. Now based in Halls Gap in his beloved Grampians, Marty earns a living as a professional photographer specialising in on-location wedding, commercial and portraiture work. As a Master Photographer with the AIPP, he’s earned numerous awards for his landscape work – much of which he’s captured in the Grampians.
‘Both my commercial and wedding clients are mostly landscape based.’
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