The exhibition called The Orb Weavers Web is extraordinary, artistic and breathtakingly beautiful photography. Each finished photograph captures a kind of fairy-tale and decorative pattern. Like Christmas decorations on a tree, each bauble captivates and tantalises the viewer. Melinda Moran uses a special lens, and hours and hours of time to capture the exact image she wants through a pinhole sized water-drop on a spiders web. Each image is carefully selected and many hours of painstaking waiting and experiment are taken exacting each photograph.

Melinda’s exhibition will be opened by media and political identity Susan Templeman at 6.00pm on Saturday 5th May 2012. All are invited to attend and meet with artist/photographer Melinda Moran. Musician and Composer Riannon Lawson will compliment the evening with her compositions. I have attached an invitation and some newspaper cutouts and images of Melinda’s work. I will send the images in stages.

Melinda has also designed and built what she calls the ‘Melindascope’ – an apparatus (bit like a kaleido scope) to view many of her captured and beautiful images. She will have it at the exhibition for hands-on (eyes on) visitor experience.

“I have included a famous quote from Sir David Brewster.  I chose it because I use a lot of his light and optics theory’s  to improve my technique. I use the principles of Brewster’s angle to do this work.  Sir David Brewster ( Physicist) invented many famous things, including the Kaleidoscope.  Thus a tribute to Sir David and for me I in the making of the Melinda scope. His quote -  A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion. — Sir David Brewster”

Melinda also says:

“Inspired by memories of a happy childhood with my wonderful family, for endless hours I  photographed my local Hill End bush land  and also locations on the Northern Beaches N.SW  and  Noosa Q.L.D. I made many journeys to these locations to gain the different perspectives  from the changing seasons and lights of day, thus capturing a series of varying images each conveying the unique beauty  and colours of the location and time in nature.  Finally what I could see, felt right as I knew  the images had to be captured in the correct way and this is no easy task.

My work has various landscape themes through Water Droplets,  Light Drawings ,  Rhythm and Stills photography.  The “Orb Weavers View” series,  captures  a suspended matrix of water droplets on magical spiders webs. It is amazing to look into water droplets of various sizes, comparable to pinheads, or as small as the tip of a pin.  A looking glass, through natures water, has beautifully  created, multiple mini  landscapes. Again my childhood played a significant part in my creation of this concept, with memories of  my sister Michelle  carrying me around on her right hip to introduce me to all the fairies and spiders that lived in Pop’s garden and  under the house .

To circle back in time is to revisit special places , write  anecdotes of that happy places and photograph them . I love photography and landscapes.

All photo’s printed by Melinda Moran and Matthew Franklin”.