Bio

Mieke Boynton is a full-time landscape photographer based in the beautiful alpine township of Bright in Victoria, Australia, where she and her fiancé Matt Palmer (who is an internationally-acclaimed landscape photographer) run a beautiful fine-art photographic gallery called “Alpine Light”. Together, they showcase their archival prints of landscape and aerial photographs from both their stunning local area, and their many travels around Australia and overseas. Mieke’s landscape photographs celebrate the breathtaking beauty of nature. Mieke’s achievements include becoming the first Australian and first woman to win the prestigious Epson International Pano Awards in 2019, and in 2021 being judged the NZIPP International Photographer of the Year. Her aerial photograph “Ocean Deity” represented Australia in 2023 in the Nature/Landscape Category in the World Photographic Cup and she was the 2023 NZIPP Australian Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year. Mieke is a Master with Distinction of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP), a Master of the Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique (FIAP) and a Grand Master of the Australian Photographic Society (APS).