Author(s): Nowakowski, Steven

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Steven has been photographing Australia's wild landscapes for many years, concentrating mostly on capturing the essence of Australia's diversity in panoramic format. Steven holds a deep love for Australia's landscapes and unique ecosystems. The images contained on this site are just fleeting glimpses of scenes that have unveiled themselves to Steven at a moment in time.Propelled by a deep sense of connection to this country, Steven Nowakowski has managed to carve a path with large format photography, a career enabling him to remain in tune with where his heart lies. Steven's inspiration has long been drawn from true wilderness photographers, Tasmanians Peter Dombrovskis and Olegas Truchanas. Dombrovskis and Truchanas were men not only magnificently talented behind the lens but of whom also carried a quiet, yet incredibly powerful message behind their work. Similarly, their vision at the time was to utilise the printed image to highlight the immeasurable vulnerability of a region they loved dearly, places vastly unknown and unseen by most. Indeed it was the compelling Dombrovskis photograph of Rock Island Bend that touched the conscious mind of the country during the campaign to save Tasmania's Franklin River in the early 80's from being dammed. Port Douglas is the sixth book in his Journey Series