Environment photography

At least half of my painting effort goes into shooting good reference photos. I “create” my composition in the viewfinder and shoot with as wide dynamic range as possible. Lately I have been using a drone to get shots that would have been impossible before. In order to get the widest dynamic range, I shoot bracketed photos at different f-stops then process them on my computer with Photomatix. I shoot thousands of photos, often visiting the same places at different times of day to find…

Gardens near Hanoi - Chùa Thầy -Việt Nam

Explored #85 on Oct 8, 2011. Thank you all for your kind comments.

before + after

Somerset Stories interviews Rich Wiltshire. Somerset Stories interviews notable Somerset creatives from the Love for Somerset Instagram hub.

Photographer. Portrait, fashion, industrial & sill life. Fotografo. Retrato, moda, industrial y producto.

Wild Concrete is a photographic series of Romain Jacquet-Lagreze that has been published as a photo book in May 2014. It is a series about the resilience of nature in an urban environment. Focusing solely on the phenomena of trees sprouting from residential buildings in the busy districts of Hong Kong, Wild Concrete compares the living conditions between plants and humans both growing in a harsh surroundings. In this series the trees share the same exceptional qualities as their human…

The Joseph Bellows Gallery shares the late Wayne Sorce's "Urban Color" series of NYC in the late '70s and early '80s.

Reference photos of actual landscapes make it much easier for artists to paint their own landscapes on canvas.

Canvas Art Landscapes for a Stunning Home Gallery (#58)