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<v ->Can you tell us a little bit about</v>

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this incredible portrait?

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<v ->Yeah, so it's my daughter.</v>

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So, I shot this last year,

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I think on the Gold Coast, we had a little lockdown period,

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couple of lockdown period.

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So, I decided to make some floral head pieces

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and chuck a black sheet up in the lounge room

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and shoot the daughters.

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And this is one of the photos that I shot, yeah.

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<v ->That's amazing.</v>

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So you actually construct all of the...?

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<v ->Yeah, I did.</v>

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First time doing it.

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I thought, something to do during lockdown,

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we were really bored.

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Couldn't get out and shoot.

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So yeah, set up the lounge room as a studio

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and shot the daughters.

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<v ->Some things, good things came out of COVID after all.</v>

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<v ->I think they did, yeah.</v>

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I learned a lot during lockdown,

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really got to focus on photography.

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I wasn't working, so I got to do photography,

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which was really good, yeah.

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<v ->Have you been doing photography for long?</v>

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<v ->I've been learning it for a long time,</v>

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but like I've only shot my kids, family.

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So, only during COVID I started to shoot other people.

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Like I've done one photo shoot and someone said,

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"You should shoot other people, like your work's good".

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I'm like, yeah, I really only started to

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call myself photographer last year sometime.

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I was like too ashamed to call myself,

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I said, I do photography, but I'm not a photographer.

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(laughing)

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People would just encourage me to get out there,

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and do more work.

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And somebody even encouraged me to enter this.

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Seen my work, and said, "You should enter".

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Gave me the link to this.

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I didn't even know what it was

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and they're like, "Here's the link.

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"Put it in".

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I'm like, "Yeah, maybe not".

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And then on the day I'm like, I should put it in today.

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And then yeah, I was really stoked.

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Amazed to even be here, be a finalist, yeah.

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