Best Death Valley photographer?
I'm just back from a week in Death Valley and so the thought occurs to me: Who is the best Death Valley photographer?
O.K., let's broaden that a bit--who is your favorite Great Basin/Mojave/Sonoran desert photographer in any format?
I'm especially interested in hearing about photographers who really capture the sense of place in the desert rather than those who go for a more dramatic vision (e.g. greatly exaggerated near/far relationships, hyper color, everything shot at sunrise/sunset).
Who should I be looking at?
--Darin
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I'm just back from a week in Death Valley and so the thought occurs to me: Who is the best Death Valley photographer?
I am, of course. And now you are, too.
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Just search death valley on Flickr and you'll come up with thousands of good images that capture the sense of place in the desert. Artistic wise I like the death valley images of Edward Weston.
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These and the above images are just scans of my older 16x20 silver gelatin prints from 4x5 negatives...non of my more recent 8x10 work )pt/pd and carbon).
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I'd be curious to see the work of any prospector/desert rat from turn of the century (1900) who might have directed his (or her but doubt it) camera on the terrain... You know, for the perspective of someone who lived the desert lifestyle.
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This is a very short list so far! Anyone else?
--Darin
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For color work, I'd say Ben Horne.
http://benhorne.wordpress.com/
He really puts in the effort to come away with shots, and best bit of it all is that he records his efforts in video and probably has the best series of landscape photography videos on the web. He really does a nice quality job and his photographs are also excellent.
-DP
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Ansel Adams and Jack Dykinga
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Jack Dykinga
Did I mention the hyper-color issue? :)
--Darin
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