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An eye for capturing Grenfell

Helen Carpenter has turned her hobby of photography into award winning work.

With three photos recognised by Camera House in The Landscape Awards and one of her photos featuring on the front page of the popular Galah magazine, Helen's photography has everyone in awe.

The Landscape Awards is a photography competition in search for Australia's and New Zealand's best landscape photographers and has been held over three years.

Helen has entered photos into the competition each year with each year being awarded multiple highly commended and commended awards.

This year Helen was awarded highly commended and two commended awards for her photography which captures the beauty of Grenfell and it's region.

Highly commended was awarded to Helen for her photo of Trungley School in the landscape category.

This photo captures the old school building on the road to Temora from Grenfell in all of its historic beauty.

Out of all three of Helen's photos that were recognised in The landscape Awards 'Trungley School' is her favourite because of its history.

Commended awards were awarded to Helen's photos 'Storms Coming' in the landscape category and 'Golden Fog' in the aerial category.

Capturing a storm front coming in from Grenfell is 'Storms Coming' and 'Golden Fog' captures the Warraderry Valley early in the morning from a drone.

"It's an honour to have them recognised," Helen said.

As well as her photos being recognised in these awards Helen was excited to share that another one of her photos, 'Starry Skies and Red Dirt' was chosen to be on the front cover of the latest edition of the Galah magazine.

"I entered 'Starry Skies and Red Dirt' into the Regional Photographic Awards and Annabelle Hickson (Galah Magazine editior) chose my photo from over 1100 photos.

"That was probably more of a honour and privilege and really affirmed that I'm cruising along nicely with my hobby."

Helen started her hobby of photography in 2010 and has continued taking photos as she loves that she is able to capture a moment in tome.

"It's here and it's gone, and that's it," Helen said.

"In Grenfell I love capturing the environment and season and the different changes in weather patterns we have."

With her hobby, Helen said she hopes to put a smile on somebody's face and capture history to look back on.

You can check out some of Helen's beautiful work on her Facebook page, Helen Carpenter Photography.