Polychromo

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Photographer

Bevil Templeton-Smith
Prize

Fine Art Photographer Of the Year
Jury Top 5 Selection

David Clarke Fabulous luminosity of colours which complement each other beautifully to create forms that look organic even though they are created by mixing together among other things, household chemicals! There is a 3 dimensional feel which is created by juxtaposition of powerful shapes and colours. Wonderful wonderful wonderful!
Date of Photograph

Between February 2022 and April 2023
Technical Info

1/80 or below, ISO 100, Not sure of Aperture as shot on Microscope on full frame Sony A7R iv camera
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A series of photographs I took between February 2022 and April 2023 of crystals in polarised light on my 1970 Leitz Orthoplan polarising microscope. I prepared the crystals from a variety of household chemicals and sweeteners. Thousands of pictures later, I have curated a series of my favourite ones. A successful joint exhibition featuring 16 of them (some in this set) were shown in an exhibition titled Polychromo at Alveston Fine Art in Notting Hill in London in March 2023.

Biography

I grew up in South Africa and have spent the second half of my life in the UK working in IT. I have been interested in photography since the very first digital cameras and take every opportunity now to feed my habit. I am interested in equal measure in many different subjects within photography. From Astrophotography, to landscapes, to macro, to filtered long exposures, to nature, to portraiture, to HDR, to panoramas, and most recently microscopy. I like to record images of as many types of subject and in as many technically different ways as I can.
Awards

Non professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year in the IPA 2023