Mr Hickie said his passion for photography started when he was 14.
“I’m not too sure what actually sparked the interest,” he said.
“I’ve always been creative and I’ve always loved the outdoors, so I think when I picked up the camera, it just kind of put them both together and something happened. I enjoyed it, and that was it.”
Mr Hickie was diagnosed with a lazy eye when he was a child and was given eye patches to try and correct his vision.
He said: “I had to use patches over my strong eye, but because I couldn’t see where I was going, I just used to rip them off all the time.
“We tried eye drops to fix it, then we tried glasses, but I took them off all the time.”
Mr Hickie added because his eyesight was not “fixed” as a child, his brain has started to “ignore” his left eye completely.
“It [my eyesight] transitioned to something called amblyopia, which is a neurodevelopmental issue, where your brain just starts to ignore your eye, which means I’m pretty much only seeing out of my right eye.”