Oamaru photographer Emma Paton has had quite the year.<\/p>\n
She had one of her photos featured in the Farmlands 2026 calendar and also won the Arthur Turvey Trophy for best photography exhibit at the North Otago A&P Show back in February.<\/p>\n
Most recently, two of her photos were featured in this year\u2019s T\u016bhura Otago Museum photography exhibition as finalists of the annual competition.<\/p>\n
Paton said she was excited to learn she would have her work featured in the exhibition.<\/p>\n
“When I was notified that I was a finalist, I thought I had one photograph in the finals, but to my surprise I actually had two and both were on display in the exhibition.<\/p>\n
“With over 9000 entries, it was an honour to have two photos selected.”<\/p>\n
Both photos were in the landscape category and it was her first time being a finalist for the competition.<\/p>\n
She loved being able to capture special moments through her photos.<\/p>\n
“Often a photo says it all without words.<\/p>\n
“You see things through a lens that could easily be missed with a general look around.<\/p>\n
“The most exciting thing is when you find you\u2019ve captured something really special in a photo.”<\/p>\n
Paton, who is deaf, has to rely on her sight when out shooting.<\/p>\n
“That works well with photography.<\/p>\n
“Photography is a way of communicating, it\u2019s what I see captured for longer than the moment in time it took to take the photo.”<\/p>\n
She shot weekly and always brought her camera when on holiday.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m really fortunate that my fiance, Jake, and I share the same passion of photography.<\/p>\n
“We go together to take photos and have been on local hikes and further away to places like Stewart Island and Tasmania, where you see some amazing scenery and birdlife.”<\/p>\n
“Patience, practice and perseverance” were the keys to getting quality shots, she said.<\/p>\n
Paton encouraged anyone interested in photography to give it a go.<\/p>\n
“Most people have cameras on their phones and that\u2019s a good way to start.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oamaru photographer Emma Paton has had quite the year. She had one of her photos featured in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-522510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}