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So here is this really cool 18 year old from Dallas, USA, having fun with photography and in the process winning great praise, accolades and awards for his work. And what’s more, he even got the privilege of doing a feature for the cover story of Nikon World magazine. Yes, “wow”!

According to him he’s been a photographer since he was 15, that was when his grandfather gave Andrew his “old” Nikon Coolpix. Andrew says he “wasn’t all too serious at first” until he saw what others were doing in his Commercial Photo class in his second year at uni. During the  second semester, he says, he had “moved up” to a Nikon D200 - the camera he still uses today.

Andrew’s photos, for me, has both a sombre and a haunting feel to them. Still some are even intense and mellow at the same time. Have a look at some of his portraits, they are just beautiful. The tones maybe pleasing to the eye but how he has used the subjects makes them very extraordinary. The framing, the composition and post-processing simply outstanding! What is clear to me, and this I think is an important fact, is that Andrew has found his own unqiue style in portraiture as well as nature and landscape.

On post-processing, he says, he uses Photoshop but that ”for the most part, I get it all in camera”.

Check out Andrews artistry at www.andrewhefter.com.