ABOUT NAUTILUS GALLERY

Tracy Woolley is the photographer who has captured these fabulous images of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia and beyond and IS Nautilus Gallery.

Tracy was conceived on Mooloolaba Beach (a fact that only came to light in 2006! no wonder it feels so much like home here!) and has spent much of her life travelling the country either by sky, road or sea.

With her father joining the Royal Australian Air Force when she was 5 she was posted to several Australian towns and overseas to Penang, Malaysia.

Growing up she vowed she wanted to stay in one place when she became an adult, but when she reached that time the travel bug hit, and she went off again, travelling to Queensland islands and settling for a time in Hobart, Tasmania.

Her dream was one day to sail a yacht in the Whitsundays and in 1998 she bought her first yacht and settled back in Mooloolaba. A few years later in 2000, she competed in an international yacht race from Brisbane to the Solomon Islands. She spent the next few months sailing back from the Solomons and cruising the Queensland coast along with 3 of her 5 children!

Thats when her love of the ocean and their teeming life, beaches and shells came to the fore. Many times on those voyages between ports she saw sights that were of wonderment and complete joy, but having no means of recording those beautiful scenes committed them to memory.

Having spent 2 years sailing she decided to return to Mooloolaba with the children and settled into working as the Co-ordinator of the local Chamber of Commerce. Upon receiving a High Distinction studying Photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Victoria, through an external course, Tracy decided to capture beautiful images of the place she calls home and encourages you to enjoy them too!

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ACHIEVEMENTS

2008:

2007:

Honourable Mention - International Photography Awards 2007, California USA , Nature Section with Series 'The Dunes' Fraser Island

Shortlisted Entrant,  2008  Australian Weather Calendar, Bureau of Meteorology. 'Rainbow over Pt Cartwright'

Applicant - Winston Churchill Memorial Trust -

                     Chronological Photographic Report

                     of Northern Hemisphere Glaciers.

                     Professional Referee - Photo Review Australia 

                                               www.photoreview.com.au     

                 Project Referee -       Australian Conservation

                                               Foundation www.acfonline.org.au

Nominee - 2007 Epson QLD Professional Photography Awards - 'After the Storm' Mooloolaba , 'Sunset at Cotton Tree' , 'The Cattleyard' Outback QLD

Nominee - The Heritage Acquisitive Photographic Awards - 'Red Tender' , 'Pippi Shell, Orchid Beach' , 'Angel Wings' & 'Wandering Over the Dune'

2006:

6 Awards, 3 Blue Ribbons, 1 Red Ribbon & 2 White Ribbons  - International Association of Panoramic Photographers, International Panoramic Photographic Competition 2006 - 'After the Storm' Mooloolaba , 'Sunset at Cotton Tree' , 'Little Wategos' Byron Bay,   'Mooloolaba Beach Dawn' , 'The Cattleyard' Outback QLD , 'Sydney Harbour' Australia .

Finalist - Excellence in Business & Export Awards, Sunshine Coast 'Emerging Business' Category

Finalist - Red Lens, International Photographic Competition & Exhibition - 'After the Storm' Mooloolaba & 'Wandering over the Dune' Fraser Island.

2nd Place  The BHP Billiton, Waltzing Matilda, Images of the Outback , Colour Print Division with 'The Cattleyard' Outback QLD

Honourable Mention - International Photography Awards 2006, California USA , Nature Section with 'Nautilus Shell'

Entrant - 31st Australian Photographic Society, National Exhibition of Photography

Nominee - Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards

Silver Merit Award - QLD Division Australian Institute of Professional Photographers, 'Red Tender' Mooloolaba Harbour

Entrant 2007 Australian Weather Calendar, Bureau of Meteorology. Six images held over for 2008 due to 2007 theme being decided as 'Polar Meteorology, Understanding Global Impacts'

    P. O Box 1579, Mooloolaba  QLD  4557

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