About Carmel Cook

My interest in photography took hold in 1988 when I was fortunate enough to work as an assistant to Los Angeles travel photographer David Finer. David was known for his distinctive style of landscape photography as well as for his great technical skills.

During 1990s I studied photography at a private college where my own style of work was encouraged to flourish. Since the changes in technology with the digital era, I have found it necessary and a great pleasure to go back to being a student with the intention of making the most of all that this new approach to image making has to offer. By the end of 2011, I will have gained my Diploma in Photoimaging. This year, for the first time, I entered my images in the Australian Institute of Professional Photographers’ (AIPP) national awards and was very encouraged to receive silver awards in Landscape and Illustrative categories.  

I was also awarded the winner of the MSIT Diploma of Photoimaging Folio and 1st prize in the AIPP State Student Folio Awards.

A deep love of landscape and the experience of being in such beautiful places has driven me to become ever more engaged in this field of photography. To be in a landscape that evokes such feelings of serenity is a great pleasure. To capture that mood or the emotional response to it in the camera can be technically a very difficult project.

My aim in making a photograph is to approach each image as a piece of fine art. I am blessed with a great deal of patience and this is a prerequisite for being able wait for the light so as to capture the subject in that perfect moment when it is brought to life. You just have to wait for it to happen. When it does – it’s magical. When it doesn’t…. there is always tomorrow.

My images are all fully edited and professionally printed using either photographic or fine art paper and are of archival quality. The mounting and matting is acid free and executed to the highest standard to ensure the longevity of each piece.