On a photography workshop at Hamersley Gorge, Sheldon left his group still shooting the popular Spa Pool and set off to explore, hoping to find something different.
This small waterfall – about 40 centimetres wide – caught his eye. Adopting an aerial perspective, Sheldon framed the picture as a square, so the impact of the water became central. The Hamersley Gorge is famous for its red layers of rock. These thin layers formed three billion years ago, when bacteria in our planet’s young oceans began to produce oxygen through photosynthesis. This oxygen combined with dissolved iron in the sea and formed deposits of insoluble, red iron oxide.
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Sheldon has worked as a professional landscape photographer for three years. He enjoys shooting anything from aerial abstracts to classic landscapes, and was named Capture magazine’s Top Australian Emerging Photographer of the Year for 2015.
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