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There is a common misconception, especially among artists in other medias, that there is no art to photography. One simply arrives at a beautiful location, clicks the shutter, and records something that was already there. While we are recording nature, fine art photography is much more than that.

Photography becomes art when the photographer learns to truly see the scene; using all 4 dimensions to capture a uniquely artistic visualization. By adjusting the parameters of the exposure we’re able to compress or accumulate time. We can leverage that manipulation of time to capture things that they eye, or any other artistic media, simply can’t see.  We can change our location, or perspective, to balance the objects in the frame. Just as a painter or sculptor poses their model, we pose the landscape. In a very real sense it’s much less contrived as we are forced to work with what we’re presented with. Read the rest of this entry »