Inland to Coast
Just larger than macro. Wide angle closeup view of the world where texture and color details are interesting and enthralling. Fascinating features of everyday items. Fallen leaves and petals. nuts and corals, moss and bark.
Photography is about seeing the world as it is and remembering it better. Capturing the beauty of nature as a souvenir that brings back a feeling of what it was like to be there. And more. Looking at the world through a viewfinder can be tedious. It can seem to the photographer and others that we don’t want to let go and see the world for what it is. Always trying to capture a smaller, square, “perfectly” composed aspect of the world. But it has to be worth it, right? To remember it all in a way that feels good. Brings joy. The details, the intricacy. The faces and friendships. A passing moment that is recalled on print. On a screen and in our hearts.
Resources for Environmental Photography Theory
Where to go? Go as many places as you can. Here’s a variety to find the spice of life.
Not my words
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
- Ansel Adams
My Blog:
This is where I step back and reflect on the process of photography. It may seem very solipsistic to write about the process. These insights are more for the author to make time and space for considering if perhaps the time is well spent. Like many endeavours that are a labor of love, the more laborious (and commercial) my hobby has become, the more difficult it is to keep to it. The more gear I acquire, the more it seems like the project is acquiring the gear than it is taking photographs. I hope that my work is appreciated, but to have someone pay me for what is my gift now feels like self-justification. Perhaps offering the pictures I like to take “for sale” is the hardest part. But it may be the only way I can sustain my habit and my hobby…even if that hobby is just being a gearhead.