MOVING from a cold, landlocked European country to the sunny shores of Sutherland Shire can give a newcomer quite a perspective on their adopted home.
For Vit Novacek, 38, a photographer born in the former Czechoslovakia who moved to Cronulla about seven years ago, it’s an ‘‘island with everything’’.
He loves its local feel and potential so much that he’s spent the past six months creating an elaborate time-lapse video of Sydney’s south, featuring Cronulla and surrounding suburbs, and venturing further afield for a few shots of beaches like Bondi, to put it in a Sydney context.
His love of photography stems from road trips with his father, an avid landscape photographer, and travel with his family.
He moved to Australia after his parents defected here, then returned later to Europe to work as a fashion photographer for a modelling agency.
Now he calls the shire home, and wants to contribute to the area’s art and music scene.
He also hopes to make more people realise the shire is a vibrant part of Sydney, and not hovering in the shadow of the Cronulla riot.
‘‘I’m seeing a lot of culture grown in the area and I wanted to contribute to it,’’ he said.
‘‘I want to alter people’s perception of the area and show there are beautiful spaces in the surrounding areas of Cronulla.
‘‘Photography is my love and my passion so I spent the time waking up earlier and taking the photos.
‘‘It was a challenge and something to give back to the community.’’
He created the video with a mixture of a DSLR camera and a programmed trigger for the shutter, and it contains about 20,000 still images, selected from about 70,000, from the early morning beach light to night lights and even the fishing trawler which ran aground at Cronulla in February.
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