Earth and Sea – Julie Stephenson

Jun 01

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Wisdom and Inspiration 0 comments

“The glorious gift to age and greet another day”

"The glorious gift to age and greet another day". What a beautiful sentence shared by a lovely lady as a comment on one of my recent Instagram posts. I spoke about witnessing my body change with scars from experience and surgeries and how I feel about watching my beautiful body change and age as time passes; and how this revealed itself to me through listening to one of my photographs from Antarctica. It seemed that..

Nov 24

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Selected and invited to Sapmi Arctic Residency – La Wayaka Current – Northern Norway

I am so excited at the privilege to have been selected and invited to attend the Sapmi Arctic Residency in Northern Norway in March/April 2018. I have been exploring my connection with both the Arctic and Antarctic regions and expressing that through my photographs, videos and books; so this residency is another wonderful opportunity to continue with this exploration. The residency is in a wild and feral island where I will be staying in a farm house with a small group of artists for 3 weeks. I feel that I not only have an opportunity to gain a great deal personally through the experience; but my presence, resultant work and continued collaborations and relationships with the community, artists and La Wayaka Current organisation - will be so enriching and valuable. I am soooo excited!! Pop here to see the residency details.

Feb 14

by Julie in Earth and Sea, South America and Antarctica 0 comments

Beauty in abandonment – Rejected by the ocean; sand creatures on the west coast of Chiloe in Chile

Jan 22

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Shamanism 0 comments

Something ‘unseen’ but ‘felt’ within the land…. Dead Horse Gap walk Mt Kosciuszko

I have walked a lot of this amazing planet... and I can FEEL the energy of much of the landscape. Read on to find out about my journey through this landscape...

Jan 01

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Inspirations, Photography Teachings 1 comments

Beyond the narrative….

Sometimes the narrative is necessary - as I have done on many of my journeys around the world; collating a visual diary; telling a visual story....but there are other ways to see and feel the world; and for me exploring beyond the narrative is where I dive

Jul 02

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Europe 2013, Uncategorized 0 comments

Meandering the mists of Scotland…

Scotland was quite a surprise to me. I feel like I have just touched the lid of an amazing jewell box. I had seen

Jan 24

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Fine Art Photography, Inspirations, Photography Teachings, Wisdom and Inspiration, Words 0 comments

“…the life of clouds is a parting and a meeting… A tear and a smile…”

In the artwork above I have made a sky of clouds; (all images taken on one two hour flight from Brisbane to Melbourne).... where .."the waters of the sea become vapour and rise and come together in cloud..."

Jan 18

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Photography Teachings, Uncategorized 0 comments

Detail…. Cloud series.

When I looked at this photograph what I really noticed was that there were areas of really interesting detail. I found myself looking at pictures within a picture. I found myself really intrigued

Jan 16

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Photography Teachings 0 comments

The mood of an image…… cloud series

What creates the mood of an image? Colour? Tonality? Shapes? Tension

Jan 15

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Fine Art Photography, Photography Teachings 0 comments

Size DOES matter!!!! .. and this one would be amazing BIG !!!!

In this image I just felt like I wanted to walk in.. and explore around each and every area of light and softness with my hands and feet. For me this

Jan 14

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Inspirations 0 comments

A long way to go…..Cloud series

Far in the distance - right at the middle background is a beautiful bright light cloud. It may be hard to see in such a low resolution... but when I discovered it, I could see myself walking along a cloudy pathway - taking different directions;

Jan 13

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Photography Teachings, Uncategorized 0 comments

Letting an image just present itself – by interacting with it…Cloud series

I just snapped away out of the airplane window, random images - without thinking.. or actually having any intention or idea about what I would do with them. I just enjoyed

Jan 12

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Inspirations, Photography Teachings, Wisdom and Inspiration, Words 0 comments

Just going to BE!

As a photographer I am constantly observing the landscape and connect with and witness my own response to

Jan 11

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Inspirations, Photography Teachings, Wisdom and Inspiration, Words 0 comments

No-one knows what happens next…

Although I am quite psychic; have incredible foresight and intuitive abilities and even premonition dreams… I really don’t know what’s going to happen next. I don’t really know how my life will unfold

Dec 26

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A SMACK of jellyfish !!

Smack... fluther... smuck... collective nouns for heaps and heaps of jellyfish!

Dec 23

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Jellyfish in Moreton Bay

Today Max and I went out in our RIB... rigid inflatable boat- for a

Dec 22

by Julie in About Me, Earth and Sea 0 comments

In my own skin.

Yesterday I had a day where I was my very own best friend. I spent a day where I connected with myself and

Dec 22

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Today I’m going to be my own very best friend !

I scheduled today off... just for me. The past few months have been crazy.... actually

Nov 25

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Driving by…. from Escalante to Salt Lake City

I've been endeavouring to view some of my photographs from our great trip to the US

Nov 18

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Bryce Canyon National Park was pretty special….

and the more I saw ... the more I knew the less I knew.

Oct 16

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga 0 comments

Markets in Vava’u

Dreamcatcher was still moored off the jetty as our little van meandered

Oct 14

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga, Uncategorized 0 comments

Flying Whales….

This is so often what I saw. An imaginary world. Freedom.

Oct 13

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga 0 comments

Whale calf wants to play… whaleswim in Tonga continues

... I would like to share some photographs of a magical swim

Oct 10

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga 0 comments

……More whales in Tonga

After my epiphany and recognition about being humble

Oct 01

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga 1 comments

Swimming with the whales!!! At last!!!

Finally.... a whole life of wishing and dreaming... and FINALLY

Oct 01

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga, Uncategorized 0 comments

Whaleswim adventure to begin!

James met me at the sandy beach and took me to Talau House which was to be my home with 6 other guests for the next 10 days or so. I was greeted by Theresa and was adorned with a frangapani and bouganvillia lei

Sep 17

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga, Uncategorized 0 comments

Two days at Reef Resort – Kapa Island – Tonga

..... back to my adventure. I was collected by two beautiful locals to be trasferred a short distance

Sep 14

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Tonga, Uncategorized 0 comments

Fiji airport; Nukuʻalofa then Vava’u

It does take a bit of getting to Tonga - especially the way I did

Aug 15

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Jaboticaba’s in my orchard.

I love tending to my orchard and veges. There is something quite special

Jul 19

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Photography Teachings, Uncategorized 2 comments

What I do when something catches my eye – rainy afternoon in the bush.

Traversing time and place intersecting meandering lives together - alone.

Jul 17

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Uncategorized 0 comments

Illusions – Fantasy vs Reality – as realised through the Hipstamatic iPhone app

I recognised how powerful the mind is to create illusions about a situation and make it seem real.

Jul 14

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Karijini 2012 0 comments

Aerial View – Or is it?? Our perspective can sometimes be influenced.

When I took these aerial images at Karijini, I could play with the perspective of them in my mind... and could convince myself easily they were both images of the landscape taken from a plane.... or either a macro lens.

Jul 04

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This was fun…and wet and cold!!!!

This was a fantastic walk under a waterfall on the Canyon View walk at Springbrook

Jul 03

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A new perspective

Sometimes... it is really good to take a new perspective of things. I've had a few challenges over the past couple of weeks,

Jul 03

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Uncategorized 0 comments

Water and Rainbow cliche happy snaps – but I don’t care :-)

I'm having a little trouble with some complications from my lip surgery so

Jun 21

by Julie in Earth and Sea, poetry, Uncategorized, Words 0 comments

Power Grid

Aeons ago reaching for the sunlight then falling into darkness being

Jun 14

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Inspirations, Karijini 2012, poetry, Words 0 comments

Over time

Jun 10

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ND5 Collective – Photographers Peter Eastway, Michael Fletcher, Christian Fletcher, Les Walkling, Tony Hewitt – The Pilbara Project

ND5 is a collective of five talented photographers who in this project are exploring and uncovering experience and understanding in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Jun 03

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Karijini 2012, Uncategorized 0 comments

Uluru to Alice Springs, then across the Plenty Highway to Boulia

We had to get on the road and cover a lot of ground before the rain

Jun 03

by Julie in Earth and Sea, Karijini 2012, Uncategorized 0 comments

Uluru reveals itself

There I was, in a bit of a 'zone' after seeing Kata Tjuta, and I was just driving along knowing that Uluru was along the road a bit..... and then

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