Photography Website Discoveries
Category: Photography...
Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 05:39 PM [GMT-6]

While thumbing through an issue of SilverShotz at Barnes & Noble (which is how I do most of my magazine reading nowadays), I was struck by the work of a couple of photographers which I feel are worth passing along.

Beth Moon has photographed trees around the world, and the images are ethereal and evocative. Some of these trees may well have been growing when Jesus Christ walked the earth; they're amazing things to contemplate; the low resolution images hardly do justice to them...but don't miss them, anyway.

On the other hand, her collection entitled Thy Kingdom Come is a bit disturbing – not in an overt or titillating way, mind you – with its pairings of children and apparently dead animals.

Rob Gray's work is more rooted in realism, as the collection on his website primarily reflects his nature photography taken around his home continent of Australia, where he traveled extensively in the world's weirdest and largest motorhome.

Rob also has posted some excellent tutorials, and an interesting discussion of his equipment arsenal (he switched to digital in 2004 and hasn't looked back).

However, it was his Faces in Nature collection that was showcased in SilverShotz and which drew me to his website. These are photographs of natural subjects like waterfalls and rocks which have been mirror-imaged (via Photoshop, I imagine) to reveal, well, faces. The serendipity involved in creating and discovering these images seems fascinating.

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