23rd Sep 2009
The World’s Top Photographers - Landscape
Today I read this book “The World’s Top Photographers and the stories behind their greatest image - Landscape”. It’s a book that I requested from the library. WOW, what an extremely great book! I saw some of the coolest, prettiest landscape photographs I’ve ever seen. It’s a book with photographers from 38 of world’s top landscape photographers. I actually read through every single page of the book (which is quite rare) as there was so much to see. Each photo is paired with a description from the actual photographer, about where and how the photograph was taken. I felt like I’ve learned a LOT reading them. I realized that timing is very important, with sunrise/sunset being the best time for photo taking - almost 80-90% of all the shots in the book were taken either during dawn or dusk! Also a lot of the coolest pictures were taken before/after a storm or heavy rainfall, where the waves and cloud formation were in the most interesting forms.
Some of the photographs I liked the most are from these pros: Michael Frye, Yousef Khanfar, Colin Prior, John Shephard, Michael Fatali. Putting the links to their sites here for future reference.
I also saw quite a few pictures that was taken in the national parks in Utah and Arizona where I’ve also been to - I guess I have no choice but to revisit these parks sometime in the future, to capture whatever that I missed during my last visit..! Apart from Utah, some of the places that I must go sooner or later are: Yosemite National Park (beautiful mountains/waters everywhere), Yellowstone National Park (to see the colorful geysers, and the White Dome Geyser which erupts every 15 min!), Mono Lake in California (very interesting stone formation in the lake), Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (to see the crazy lava flows next to the shoreline), and Deadvlei in Namibia (dead trees thousand years old standing in a white desert).
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