Andy Fowlie

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I am a Scottish landscape photographer, currently living in Finland. My studies were first in law and then in computing and I spent two decades in the technology industry before taking a career break in 2017. I have spent the last two years travelling through Europe with my camera. My interest is in the outdoors. I love to travel and to walk about in beautiful and peaceful places and my interests have always reflected that. In my teens, twenties and thirties my free time was all spent walking around golf courses but as my forties approached problems with my back made that increasingly difficult. I had always had an interest in photography but I didn't know much about it, I decided to buy my first camera in the beginning of 2015 and (to my slight surprise) I became immediately obsessed with photography. In my times as a golfer I played in a lot of competitions (locally, nationally and internationally) where wins were the target and scores or rankings were the way to measure your progress. When I started with photography I looked for an equivalent measurement system and for that reason I ended up in photography competitions, starting with GuruShots. Winning the third GuruShots challenge that I entered provided me with a lot of encouragement to continue. As time has passed I have seen that wins, scores and rankings are not necessarily a great way to measure art and these have become less important to me. My preferred genre is landscapes and within that I am most fascinated by mountain scenes – mountains can provide such a strong vertical element to the images and break up the boredom of a horizon. My favourite shooting destinations have been northern Norway, southern Germany, Slovenia and Iceland. As I develop in my photography I have started to be interested in more intimate landscapes rather than grand scenes, I think that might be the direction I move towards in the future. I also love to shoot birds and wildlife and I use that to refresh my ideas whenever I feel like I need a break from landscapes. At the beginning I learned a lot from competing, it was very useful to see what kind of pictures were popular with people and to try and understand why some of my images went better than others. The competitions encouraged my photography and I was motivated to try and succeed. As time has gone by , with multiple wins behind me, those benefits and motivations have reduced and so has my participation. I now enter challenges only occasionally. In GuruShots I have been printed in 7 exhibitions and displayed digitally in over 30 more, my pictures have been printed in 5 photography magazines and I had a photograph in the "Big Nature" book. My pictures have also been used in a number of GuruShots articles. I currently prefer to compete on Photocrowd where I also have more than ten contest wins and have regularly been in the top 20 photographers in their leaderboard which is a photographer ranking based on results across all their competitions.

Andy Fowlie – Scotland - Profile



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