Assignment 4 Virtual Essay

One of my favorite hobbies is to capture landscape photographs. The reason why I love taking natural moments is because of my childhood story. I was born in a little town, a rural area of South Korea. There was no transportation and no store, so if I went to go a store, for example, I had to walk for least 2 hours. Therefore, nature was not only a dictionary definition as the phenomena of the physical world for me, but it was also one of my best friends. I found many interesting and joyful things from the nature such as food and toys. As well as, each season gave me different joyful. For example, in winter time, I always went up the mountain to slide over the snow in a sleigh. When I went for sliding, my friends and I bought sweet potato and white potato so we made a bonfire to bake them. Therefore, when I take a landscape photograph, it always remains of the precious memory of my childhood life. That is why I love capturing landscape photographs.

Here are some pictures that I took 2010 fall of Toronto photos from Harbour Front. I went to Harbour Front at late afternoon because I wanted to capture sunset pictures. Weather was gorgeous and clear so I could use natural light. Especially, the woods were aflame with autumn colours. I believe that the natural light might make leaves more beautiful and gorgeous even if they are already covered by autumn colours. Therefore, everything made me happy, and I could get refreshment and recharged by taking landscape photographs.

I would like to introduce a Canadian photographer who is Andrew Collett. How I know him is that when I went to Starbucks Coffee shop, I saw his work by chance at Starbucks Coffee shop. When I got home and I googled him, I found some something in common with him which he loves capturing landscape pictures and using natural lights. Here is about him.

"Andrew Collett has always loved the character of the land, and the secrets it reveals to the patient eye. As a child, he spent his summers getting to know the landscape of Georgian Bay, Muskoka and beyond. He became an observer of nature, discovering the beauty of places and seasons that were often overlooked by others. Andrew started his career in the business side of visual design, and it was a number of years before he realized he had his own distinctive vision to express. In photography he found a powerful medium into which he could pour his boundless creative energies.

When a scene captures Andrew Collett’s eye, it’s because he has had a vision of what it could be at its best. It could be at four in the morning when the mists rise from the night-cooled land; or, at seven in the evening as a thunderstorm batters a distant line of dark trees. Andrew’s goal is to capture a scene in exactly the circumstances when experience tells him it will be suffused with the most intense emotion. He works hard to grasp a fleeting feeling one which lives for just a brief moment in a masterstroke of light, colour, shape, perspective… and timing. Gathered from the land, he brings moments to life and fashions into them into fine images that are celebrated in interiors of all kinds, where the echoes of what he has experienced will resonate for years to come.

Andrew Collett loves his work. He considers it a privilege and a responsibility to bring these celebrations of our land into people’s homes. His hope is that his renderings of our natural beauty may inspire dreams and memories, and a particular kind of hopefulness that he has felt while walking the trails and pathways of our boundless, natural inheritance.” (From his website)

As you see, the natural light makes clear and beautiful picture. So one of important his lessons that I realized when I read his article is how to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. The solution is that you should know how the light works. As a result, he says that if you really want to take a extraordinary picture, wait for the light. I love taking landscape photographs because it remains of my childhood life, allows us to take seasonal picture and has various topic that we can create whatever we want.

Source

http://www.andrewcollett.com/