Inspiration
- Posted by Mr Goddard
- On May 25, 2022
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- Landscape designer inspiration, Landscape Photography
I began my creative journey as an enthusiastic landscape photographer who wanted to accurately capture beautiful places I’d visited. Image making felt very natural to me but I still wanted to know more about it. I began formal photographic studies covering use of equipment, history, studio lighting, concept development, story telling and photographic design to name a few. However, it was always the landscape and its diversity that inspired me to pick up the camera.
Inspiration also came from other photographers like the American landscape photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams. His images are pristine and captured a quality of light that expressed the full tonal range of traditional photography. Another photographer of wild places was the late Peter Dombrovskis, who inspired conservationists with his wonderful images of the Tasmanian wilderness. I also looked to Lewis Baltz, part of the “Man-Altered Landscape’ movement of the 1970’s who made beautiful images of the urban landscape emphasising geometry, lines and shape. While Michael Kenna’s peaceful night photography captured emotive monochromatic landscapes using long exposures and dramatic lighting.
Since becoming a horticulturalist and landscape designer, I bring the visual themes and inspirations of landscape photography to compliment my ideas and skills when working with clients. With a focus on making inspiring and beautiful places in your own garden, my photographic passion for exploring landscape themes is easily shared with the creative processes of professional landscape designer.