INSPIRATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER (Sue Flood)

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Arctic icescape in March, Lancaster Sound, Baffin Island, Canada.

SYNOPSIS:
Sue Flood is an award-winning professional wildlife photographer and author who has been working in the Polar regions since 1998, although her work increasingly takes her to warmer climes to thaw out. Sue spent 11 years with the world-renowned BBC Natural History Unit, fulfilling a lifelong ambition to work with her childhood hero Sir David Attenborough. Sue is passionate about the use of still and moving images to engage people’s interest in the natural world and regularly lectures on her experiences of wildlife film-making and photography to expedition travel companies, corporate organisations, as well as schools and universities, with the aim of inspiring people to protect the planet. Sue also enjoys guiding for tailor-made wildlife photography trips, including the Antarctic, Costa Rica, Rwanda and Zambia. Sue was delighted to be recognised in this year’s International Photographer of the Year competition, with awards for her book “Cold Places” in the nature book category, and also as runner up for the Travel and Tourism category.
This photograph comes from a series named ‘ cold places’, and the frame of it is main object in the middle, which is ice. The overall lighting style is hard but within little soft. The ice that in front of the photograph is belongs to the hard part. The background part is soft. Sunlight is the only light source in this photograph. The sunlight is come from down of the right side, which is a soft direct lighting that make the shadow unclear. The light make the photograph divides to two parts but looks the background and the main object is mix. And this picture give the feeling is cool. The cool feeling does not come from the main object, but also effected by the light, such as the dark shadow in the right part on the bottom. It is not hard to find out the photographer’s vantage point in this image was standing, because the photograph seem as eye-level. In this photograph, affection is Sue Flood wants the readers experience from her work, because in I did not find any special meaning, but learn many angel, lighting, and structure in this picture. The photographer took many different shape of ice. In this photograph, there are two kinds of shape of the ice, one is icicle, and another is lump.

Emperor penguin viewed through hole in iceberg at Snow Hill Island rookery, Antarctica. November 2008.