Outdoors and Landscape Photography

Many of the formal themes that interest me: negative space, repetitive shapes and lines, textures, relationships of objects in space, lighting, present themselves outdoors. I respond to these themes in compositions ranging from the intimacy of moss growing on the trunks of evergreen trees, to the geometry, texture and light of old buildings and machines, to the vastness of mountain ranges and cool valleys. I am interested in applying the formal concerns of the studio to the uncontrolled environment “outside” and finding in composition and light possible resolutions to the challenges of working in “the big studio”.
These images range from traditional landscapes, to environmental portraiture, to beach still lives, to architectural features, all found exactly as they are, and not manipulated or lit; in contrast to my studio work. The challenge is bringing the formal concerns to life, but working with the palette that man and earth and time puts forth. I do not use filters, polarizers, or flash.