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The following text is taken from Broome Happenings November 2005
"Usually I have places marked off in advance, like the highest tide of the year, then you just have to wait for everything to come together," he said.
"It's hard to get photos when you're breezing through a town. I traveled to Wyndham, which is a 2000km round trip and spent four days there and there was only one photo I was happy with."
"You can't simply go take a photo of Cable Beach, you might get a good postcard photo, but you won't get a great photo"
"Much of this comes down to an understanding of the elements of nature."
"This photo was taken of a cyclone building up," he said, pointing to one of his photos, "I'd been waiting years to get a storm shot of Cable Beach"
"Eighty percent of a great photo is light and the rest is knowing how to use a camera, but I'm not a gadgeteer."
This year Kelly's photographic work, a collage featuring sequential images from the Broome Jetty to Town Beach, taken over the past 19 years, won overall People's Choice Award at this year's Shinju Acquisitive Art Awards.
"A lot of people saw it as "real" Broome, rather that just palm trees and green grass," he said. "the area is so underrated - the mangroves and the ecology of the area is beautiful"
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The following is taken from Broome Happenings December 2003
Kelly has been studying the flora and fauna of the Kimberley through the lens of his camera from Balgo to One Arm Point, catching each of his subjects in the perfect light, at the best time, and from the best angle.
For Kelly, the sky is the heaviest part of the photo and sometimes is the main component, because the area around Broome is so flat. And he chooses to do most of his work in the wet season when the cloud masses are most active.
Kelly waits for weeks to be able to take the photo he needs, sometimes planning a shot for years until he can be in the right place at the right time.
His photographs portray Broome exactly as it is - a red, dusty town. He describes his photographs as rare and the subjects are diverse, from children on Derby marshes to shots of light catching anthills which turn them into "tombs", and a vista of the Great Sandy Desert near Balgo with bushfires in the distance.
One particular piece of Kelly's work which immediately captures the eye is a portrait of the 'Ghost Ship' leaning on its side on the mud - abandoned, lost and desolate.
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