Both men are based in the Highlands and you can now see award-winning photos from each artist in the one exhibition at the Milk Factory in Bowral.

The exhibition is called Two sides of the coin, reflecting the different approaches each photographer takes while looking at the same landscape.

Most of the images are of places within half an hour of Bowral, but Mark and Clayton say they have aimed to "put a different spin on things."

"We want to move away from the literal snapshot and inject a creative streak," Clayton said.

"We are not documentarians and we each have a different interpretation of the landscape."

Mark agreed that his focus is how to deviate from the ordinary to make it extraordinary.

"I deliberately keep my focus on the local landscape because it forces me to try to see things differently. In the recent AIPP awards, photographer travelled far and wide to get great photos but I went into my backyard," he said.

Mark won NSW AIPP Creative Photographer of the Year and was a finalist for Illustrative Photographer of the Year.

Illustrative Photographer of the Year was won by Clayton, who moved to the Highlands a year ago from Bundeena.

"In the Highlands I have to try harder with my photography and find the grandeur in the small things. It is a lovely thing being restricted as I have to look at the landscape with fresh eyes," Clayton said.

Clayton is also involved in the printing of his and Mark's works and uses a heat-sealed technique which inhibits reflections from the prints.

"It allows immediate appreciation of the works," he said.

Both photographers find their work is sought equally by locals and tourists.

"I find it is more about an emotional connection with the place. People often say they like the photo, but when it evokes a memory or stirs up something inside them, that's the differentiator," Mark said.

The exhibition will run until the end of October, with one of the artists attending most weekends to talk to visitors about their work.