Photographic Landscape Artist
Pete Mellows is an emerging nipaluna/Hobart-based landscape photographer. He has received multiple competition achievements with the Australian Mono Awards, Australia’s Top Emerging Photographers Awards and Wilderness Photographer of the Year (Great Walks magazine).
From growing up in a mining and logging town, to photographing lutruwita/Tasmania’s iconic and unknown places, is a journey in itself.
Pete’s love of technology saw him navigate sound engineering, graphic design and pre-press. He then became a local expert on all things tourism and local history whist managing one of Hobart’s iconic waterfront pubs.
Pete was motivated to create one of the first businesses in Tasmania to pursue mountain bike tourism. His business, Wild Bike Tours, immersed beginners and experienced riders within the wild and hidden places in Southern Tasmania.
Revealing unexpected scenery was life-changing. Pete now seeks out evocative scenes from the remote to the popular, and captures them as single shot photographs for local and global collectors.
2023 Australian Mono Awards - Highly Commended - Western Arthurs
2023 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers - Commended - Pencil Pines on The Tarn Shelf
2023 The Landscape Awards (Australian Photography Magazine) - Highly Commended - Wild Southern Shore
2023 Wilderness Photographer of the Year (Great Walks Magazine) - Top 30 - Photographing Southern Tasmania
2022 Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers - Commended - Derwent Sailing
2021 Wilderness Photographer of the Year (Great Walks Magazine) - Highly Commended - Forever Kunanyi
2021 Wilderness Photographer of the Year (Great Walks Magazine) - Highly Commended - The Great Staircase
2021 Wilderness Photographer of the Year (Great Walks Magazine) - Commended - Annapurna Sunrise
2021 Australian Mono Awards - Highly Commended - Lake Pedder
2021 Australian Mono Awards - Commended - Tasmanian Shores
2021 Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers - Commended - Free Spirit
2020 Australian Mono Awards - Highly Commended - Moonlit Amphitheatre
2020 Australian Mono Awards - Commended - Coal Bluff
2020 Australian Mono Awards - Highly Commended - Shredding
2020 Australian Mono Awards - Commended - Afrikaya
2019 Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers - Commended - Junior Gymnasts
2019 Australian Mono Awards - Highly Commended - Apathy
* Commended = Short List
* Highly Commended = Second Short List