By Renee Wood
Spring is sweeping Yarra Ranges residents off their feet, as the blooms come into season and the sunrises are filled with colour, all the perfect backdrop for some beautiful photographs.
One local who’s taking every opportunity to stop and snap a beautiful picture is self taught photographer Tracy Dasler.
Tracy has been sharing her passion for beautiful photography with the Hills for sometime, capturing many magical landscapes with her keen eye.
“When we moved up into the Dandenongs I just loved getting up early and the sunrises, and basically that prompts me to get out most mornings,” Tracy said.
“On my way to work I find a spot, pull over take a couple of photos and then off to work.”
Macro photography and sunsets are some of her favourite things to capture in the region.
“A sunset you’re looking for the bright colour, a lot of my shots are actually zoomed in with a massive lens going in as far as you can get it.
“And macro photography, taking a photo close up of a flower – it’s just another world, you see flowers quite differently.”
Tracy said you should think of photographs like art work hanging in a frame to envision what shots you want to capture.
“Beginners could have an old frame and hold it up like the photo you want to take to get the idea of how to frame up a photo.”
The Emerald resident’s imagery can be viewed through Instagram under @tracylandscapes and has been known to feature on TV news weather reports.
“There’s quite a few of us up here who send photos in, and it’s good to see the Dandenongs up there because it never really used to be up there, it was always the city or the beach or all the water shots. So it’s actually really nice to see the mountains and the fog promoted.”
