Hilda Champion - Abstracts & Minimal

"The Sea Below" & "Cosmic Airfield" - Longe exposures taken during a night flight over New York City. The city lights create these wonderful squiggles and swirls while the moving plane creates the blur.

The Sea Below

The Sea Below - II

Cosmic Airfield

Extraction and Abstraction. In this series I selected numerous images of the a specific location and, after extracting strips of the dominant colors, arranged the strips into a colorful panorama. Different locations result in very different panoramas.

Winter

Colors of the Everglades

"Colors of Naples"

Wiggins Pass with Sailboat

Tropical Storm - I

Tropical Storm - II

Fog and snow are the great distraction reducers. When they blanket the landscape, they transform otherwise busy scenes into minimalistic renderings.

"First Foursome"

2021 Art Limited - Artscore Selection, Visa Selection

Extracted from larger landscapes.

"Ghosts on Golden Pond"

"Skeleton Trees"

ND Awards 2020 – Honorable Mention

2021 Monovision Awards - Honorable Mention

Coast Guards - III

Coast Guards - I

Coast Guards - II

"Coast Guards"

2020 Budapest International Foto Awards – Honorable Mention

2021 Moscow International Foto Awards – Honorable Mention

2021 PX3 – Honorable Mention

"Greener on the Other Side?"

Repetition. Repetition of lines, forms, elements.

Like rays of the sun, the fronds of this Bismarck Palm resemble a giant fan.

"Date Palm Oasis"

The receding tide creates these fluid lines which are interrupted only by bamboo fishing poles.

"Fluid"

2020 Fine Arts Photography Awards (FAPA) - Nominee

"Transience"

2022 Julia Margaret Cameron Award - Honorable Mention

Transitions is about going from dark to light, from outer to inner. The image was taken in the entry area of a mosque, but it could be any spiritual place.

"Transitions"

2019 Monochrome Awards - 3rd Place

2020 Annual Photography Awards - Honorable Mention

Sensual sand dunes from the Wahiba Sands desert in Oman.

"Bedouin Dream"

Naples Camera Club 2020 - "Blue Ribbon"

2020 Fine Arts Photography Awards (FAPA) - Nominee

Moscow International 2020 - Honorable Mention

Desert Storm

Strong winds were blowing and softened the surface of the dunes. The highlights on top of the sand dunes in this almost all black image bring out the shape and curvature of the dunes and emphasize the soft texture of the sand.