JIMBOOMBA business owner operator Samantha Fryer loves how life looks through the camera lens.
“I’ve had a camera for as long as I can remember. I’m always taking pictures,” she said.
“I’m no professional. It’s something I do for fun. It gives me a lot of pleasure.”
Sam snapped this gerbra on a digital camera and is still putting the image on canvas.
She calls the result Beautiful Imperfection and it is one of her entries in this year’s Quota International of JImboomba 2018 Art Show.
Sam loves photographing nature and the owner of Billabong Flowers has no shortage of subjects. Her business is blooms – gerbras and lisianthus to be precise.
She loves her job, though this, she admits, has been a tougher year than some.
Storms early this year took the roofs off the growing sheds and destroyed crops that should have gone to market for one of the biggest days of the flower growers’ year – Mother's Day.
It has taken some months to get the business back on its feet but things are looking up, she said.
The Quota International of Jimboomba art show brings artists of all ages and abilities together to exhibit works in categories that include traditional, modern and 3D art, textiles, handicrafts and photography. There are also all-abilities and student art and photography categories.
The art show, an annual fundraiser for Quota Jimboomba, a non-profit, non partisan, non-sectarian organisation, turns 16 this year.
Proceeds are ploughed back into local charities.
Past beneficiaries include Hummingbird House, the Leukaemia Foundation, Blue Care, chaplaincy services, local families in need, the Cancer Council of Queensland, the Brain Foundation, Hear and Say Centre for cochlea ear training and Rural Lifestyle Options Association.
Art show co-ordinator Brenda Fielding said there was still time to submit entries to the show that will be held at Jimboomba Community Hall. Art show co-ordinator Brenda Fielding said there was still time to submit entries to the show that will be held at Jimboomba Community Hall.
Opening night is on June 15 from 7pm, Tickets cost $20 for adults and $10 for children.
The art show will open to the public on June 16 and 17 from 9am. Entry is $3.
Anyone interested in submitting an art piece can go to www.quotajimboomba.org
