Amateur Photographer

Refreshing By Chris Brown

Bold, vibrant, saturated colours along with an unusual and unique point of view are just some of the characteristics that define Chris’s impactful image, which placed second in the Travel round of APOY. Chris’s sumptuous shot was taken using a drone, the DJI Mavic Pro 2, and it was made as part of a series of planned photos he was working on while vacationing in Monchique on the Algarve, Portugal, in the summer of 2019.

‘I did not want any shadows, so we waited until midday when the sun was overhead,’ explains Chris. ‘I was

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