PROFILE
Canon Ambassador Bonnie Cee wears many hats: professional stills shooter, founder of the innovative Colourtone app, and creator of short films and a TV series called Casino Beach for which she recently won a Silver Award in the Drama Series Category for the pilot at the QLD Australian Cinematography Awards. But her journey to commercial and creative success in the photo and film industries has been anything but conventional. Here she discusses how she self-taught, self-propelled and self-funded her way from florist to filmmaker.
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As is often the case with modern imagemakers, Bonnie Cee's path to becoming a photographer and filmmaker was somewhat winding. Her creative inclinations led her to explore a variety of different avenues, including fioristry and textile design, before fate placed a camera in her hands.
It was 2008 and she was 3 in Europe with a friend who had a DSLR. "Everything in front of me was just so visually beautiful. My friend lent me his DSLR and as soon as I touched it and tried it, I realised'this is it'."
Consumed by her new passion, Bonnie started spending as much time as possible reading photography books and magazines to satiate her thirst for knowledge.
"Finally, I asked my mum to
