WV photographer
snaps a winner

SHOT OF BEACH WINS B.C. COMPETITION

A SMALL patch of Dundarave Beach will be travelling to
malls and galleries throughout the province from now until

the end of the year.

The patch is captured in a 16°X
20" color photograph taken by
West Vancouver artist Mark Kelly.

Keliy’s image edged its way past
numerous other works to capture
best pictorial photograph and best
color print at this year’s Profes-
sional Photographers’ Association
of B. Cc.’ s annual competition.

By EVELYN JACOB
News Reporter

seaside image without the help of
fancy lenses or filters, or an abun-
dance of availiable light. ‘‘I was
really pleased when I saw the
print,’’ he says, “‘I didn’t think it
ewas going to be quite this good.
When you shoot anything outside

‘TI like to capture the fragility of
nature, show its beauty, and preserve it

in some way.’

— Mark Kelly

Kelly, 29, was out on an evening

stroll during sunset in early
January when he snapped the
fateful picture — dubbed Evening
Tide-Wash — with his Hasselblad
camera.

“I had an idea of what I wanted
to do — I wanted the water to blur
so I did a time exposure of
about five seconds,’’ says Kelly.
“When I got back home and look-
ed at the negative I said, ‘Wow!
this is great.’”

Kelly was able to capture the

the studio it’s never going to be
100 per cent — the light is tran-
sient, especially at sunset.’”

But nature cooperated nicely.
The judges awarded him for his
discerning use of light, his keen
sense of compositional! balance and
his ability to capture the soft pink
rays of the setting sun reflected off
the wet rocks.

The hardest part of the process,
says Kelly, was narrowing his sub-
ject to a tiny portion of the expan-
sive Dundarave Beach. ‘‘When

ean completely apeorbe and captures urine in easy- -to-remove

you’ve got an entire beach it’s
pretty hard to find one small part
that has all the right ingredients.’’

A scientist by trade, Kelly traded
in his lab coat for a 35 millimetre
camera when what began as a
passing hobby became a ‘‘major
interest.”"

He graduated from Langara’s
professional photography program
last year, winning a PPABC award
for the highest student aggregate
score for two works — Winter
Snag #5 and a posterization of the
Vancouver Planetarium.

Although the scientist-turned ar-
tist honed most of his technical
skills by sitting through long hours
of lectures and slugging it out in
the darkroom, nature itself has
been his greatest teacher.

“Being in the coastal mountains
of B.C. taught me the most about
photography,”’ said Kelly, ‘‘I spent
several summers there looking at
light, secing what it does, and try-
ing to record what the eye sces on
film.”

Since graduating Kelly has set up
his own commercial photography
business in his West Vancouver
home. Snapping shots of consumer
products and interiors of offices
hardly sounds creative, but it helps
pay the bills.

Pictorial photography, he points
out, will always be his first love.

“*E like to capture the fragility of
nature, show its beauty, and

preserve it in some way.””

.

25 - Sunday, May 13, 1990 - North Shore News

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NEWS Cindy Goodman

LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHER Mark Kelly poses with the photo Evening
Tide Wash which won him first prize in the Professional Photographers’
Association of B.C. Photo contest.

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