Shannon Olson Weekly Post

G. Brad Lewis is an internationally recognized nature photographer who, among many other subjects, specializes in capturing active volcanoes on camera. His work has been featured on virtually every form of media imaginable, from exhibitions and documentaries, to calendars and CD covers. Born in Utah, Lewis has had an appreciation for his natural surroundings since boyhood. His desire to photograph volcanoes blossomed in 1982 on a visit to Mount Kilauea, Hawaii. He is currently based at Park City, Utah, visiting and photographing in Alaska during the summer and Hawaii during the spring. 

Lewis pictures succeed in evoking the chaotic, powerful nature of the ground beneath our feet - something taken for granted by those who don't frequently experience it firsthand. The clarity of his pictures makes it feel as if the viewer is standing right in the middle of an environment regularly regarded as hostile and toxic and his introduction of vivid, unusual colors typically at odds with the usual earth tones and occasional bright orange, give his photos an almost ethereal feel. 

Nicole Orgeron weekly post

Jeff Friesen

     Jeff Friesen has been exhibited world wide and has been featured in several different news publications and other news sites. He has been awarded with several different honors and is recognized for a divers collection of work. He currently lives in Nova Scotia.

     Jeff's series Silent City is inspired by two books that essentially set out to build up and present a place to the reader. Through collaging different photos together, Jeff presents us with his city. Using several different photos from his travels combined, he creates an atmosphere of this quiet serenity.

Jada Street Weekly Post

Mike Brodie

The title of these photographs taken by Mike Brodie is called "The Cost of Freedom." The photographs were made from 2004 to 2009. These years have a lot of historical events, such as, the longest wars in the history of the US, the Patriotic Act, Hurricane Katrina and more. This was a phase where America and the economy became desperate and in despare. Brodie's photographs capture the economic hardship and the resection that the US went through during these times.

These photos look like something that would have been captured back in the 1900's. This just goes to show that America still hasn't gotten that far from its past. Compositionally, the images are rough, angular and uncluttered. They are  straightforward illustrations for the most part. The pictures are primarily about hardships, however, there is a thrill and wit in the pictures.

Emily Miah-Weekly Post #14

Geert Goiris

Geert Goiris was born in 1971 in Bornem. He now currently lives with his wife and kids in Antwerp, Belgium. His focus is usually using wide lenses for landscape photographs. He tends to not take photos of people, but rather takes the photos of the environments. 

One of Geert's most recent work is Resonance. This series focuses on many landscapes as well as houses. He also focuses on the emptiness feeling that comes with taking these photos as no one is in any of these. Although no one is in these photos and they give rather empty feelings, something of these photos make them seem amazing. The colors also play a big factor in these photos as the empty feeling rises or lowers depending on the absence of many colors. 

Julie Harris

Julie Harris Is from Denver Colorado photographer who normally specializes in documentary wedding and portrait photography. She has been photographing people, places, and everything else in between since she was 13. Harris graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder where with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a Bachelor of English -Creative Writing.

Her photos really capture the art of skin. I really see that she made these photos. the few that I chose to include in this post are all different from one another. I can tell that she used completely different depth of field for all of these. They all show skin and the skin seem to be the focus despite of other aspects of the pictures.

Beth Teller Weekly Post

Angelo Meredino

Angelo Merendino is an Ohio based photographer. He is recognized worldwide for his photo-documentary of his late wife's fight with breast cancer. He has been published in the New York Times, USA Today, The Huffington Post, and many other reputable sources. While his wife's journey with breast cancer was extremely touching, I chose a different series. "Goodbye at the Door", is the series created by Meredino. He recounts about never having to "just let myself out". His mother and father would always walk him to the door and wave as he was leaving. He never took into consideration that one day it would not be the same, there would only be one parent walking him out. Meredino said that even after a couple months of his father's passing, his mother still walks him to the door. 

I chose this series because of how relatable it is to me. Once a parent passes, the realness of death is overwhelming (at least for me it did). For him to document those moments of both parents walking him out is priceless. Those are moments that he can keep with him physically, and not just mentally. Merendino was able to capture the most genuine smiles and natural body "poses". This series and the series about his wife's fight with breast cancer have some extremely powerful images. 

Kat Hennessy Weekly Post [Week 14]

Alana Celii

Alana Celii uses color and lighting to create visual interest in seemingly uninteresting, everyday, or common objects. Her portrait subjects (if the face is shown at all) are typically stern or serious looking. The objects she captures are typically simplistic or minimalistic- allowing their shape or the color of the environment to give it the visual appeal.

She has an ability to make pictures that provoke thought and emotion and allow the viewer to create a sort of story or dialogue coinciding with the image. This allows me to connect with a room or an object that otherwise would have no significance to me at all. Her portraits shy away from the standard smiles and poses and instead capture the simplicity of being and incorporation of the environment into everyday life.

Hailey Porth Weekly Post

Kyle Kuiper

In all of Kyle's work there is such a mystery about all of it. I love the effect that he is able to cast on the viewer. When I see his work I always want to see more, or know more of the narrative in the story. I also really enjoy his use of depth in each of his photos. They are all so different, but also very easily recognizable that they are for sure his.

He always uses fog to his advantage. So many times its so easy to get frustrated with the natural elements and his are just a natural thing in all his photos. Their has not been one time when I see his stuff and I'm like wow thats out of place. It adds such a nostalgic and sentimental feel.

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John Shaw

John Shaw has been a professional photographer since the early 1970's. John's work has been published in many publications such as National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, National Wildlife, and many more. In 1997 Shaw received the first ever Outstanding Photographer Award givien by NANPA. He has won many other prestigious awards from Nikon, Microsoft and many other sources. Shaw has also published six books on nature photography, six ebooks on photoshop, and Lightroom.
John Shaw has traveled the all over the world capturing the vivid colors in nature, the wild essence of wildlife, and  and the beauty of the less finer things in life and making them into amazing works or art. Shaw has inspired me too branch out of my norms and try new things in photography like capturing the beauty of how things in America used to be a work of art, for example how cars were made back in the 1940's. People back then used to take there time with things and appreciate life more. I want to be able to capture that in todays busy society.

Brandon Hamlet Weekly Post

Bryce Kanights

     Bryce Kanights is a famous skateboard photographer who's work focuses mainly on taking pictures of people skateboarding but not all of his work is just this. He also takes pictures of things and different events that deal with the culture that comes along with skateboarding. In the first example of his work he uses a skatepark as the setting of the photo he chooses to take this picture at night. The focal point of this photo is the light that seems to move around the skatepark which he does by slowing down the shutter speed so that the path of the light turns into one solid streak. The second photo is a skateboarding picture which is not easy to make. This picture is on the opposite side of the spectrum with a very fast shutter speed in order to capture the motion of the trick. The third photo is a portrait that he uses the side walk that the model is sitting on to lead your eyes back through the picture. He also chooses the color scheme in this picture to be black and green and you will see examples of this through out this picture. 

     Bryce's work was made to show people some of the things that go on within the culture of skateboarding. He also made pictures to record skateboarders tricks so that people could know what tricks were done on different famous obstacles around the world.

Missy Griffis Weekly Post

Florian Ritter

Florian Ritter was born in 1981 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His mother who was an actress also ran her own children’s theatre. Growing up watching his mother write and create inspired him to continue in art. He mastered drawing by the age 7 and started studying media design in 2006. While in school he also worked in advertising for numerous companies. By 2007 he had fallen in love with photography. He became heavily involved in photographing people and landscape.

He went on an 18 month trip around the world working as a photojournalist.

After taking this class and seeing these images above (along with many more) I’m inspired to travel the world myself and attempt the techniques I have learned and what others use to capture the images that I want.

Sarah Widenhofer - Weekly Post #14

Eva Vermandel

Eva Vermandel is a Belgian born photographer who relocated to London to work and reside. She has been published in several magazines such as Telegraph magazine and the New York Times and she participates in solo exhibitions. Her work is usually displayed in an almost square frame, using lights, shadows and color to make her image contrast and pop. Her subject matter ranges from still lives to portraits. She explains that her subject matter draws her in, in a metaphysical manner which she cant explain. In an interview with The Great Leap Sideways, Vermandel says, "When I decide to photograph something, I do this because the subject draws me in, it pulls me towards it. It’s instinctive, the pull of the subject comes from its ‘charge’. This ‘charge’ is something I can’t really put my finger on, it’s often a combination of light and matter, but also something that I cannot explain through purely physical form. It’s metaphysical."

What I like about Eva Vermandel is our similar idea of how the subject matter pulls us in. As a new photographer, sometimes I cannot think of what I want to photograph or how. Sometimes I find myself wandering around until randomly something will come to me.  I will notice one particular object, point of view, or lighting and something will click in my brain that says yes! this is the photo you want! I can also appreciate Vermandel's ability to give a vintage, earthy feel to the moments and people she captures. 

Robert Lamb weekly Post #14

     Raquel Chicheri is a Spanish photographer from Galicia. She has had a passion for photography from a young age, although inspired by her father who is also a photographer she never pursued it in school. She is a freelance photographer and her work has been published in windsurfing magazines. “I hope to capture nature and the relationship of people around it” a quote from Chicheri. She also states that she gathers her inspiration from many different things in her life, which can be seen in her work seeing that she has a wide variety of images. As for here camera equipment she uses the Canon EOS Mark II, with a 50mm f1.4 lens, and without the aid of a tripod or flash.  

     The five images above are from her portraits portfolio found on her web-site. I believe these images are of her own children. Little to no first-hand information is given by the artist on the way she takes her photographs or her reasons and intentions behind them. But in my opinion they are simply amazing. Majority of the images are done in only black and white, for me this really increases the emotional impact of these images. Also by having these images in black and white it allows the viewer to focus on the subject and not any interfering color or background objects. Although her subjects are just children each image has a strong expression, evoking emotions such a curiosity, frustration, and loneliness. 

Darian White Weekly Post #14

Morgan Macleod 

 

Morgan Macleod is a 24 year old photographer from Australia. She is one of Australia’s best up and coming young photographers. The way Morgan captures so much beauty in all of her images is amazing. In her words, Morgan is inspired by light, color, motion and connection between the model and the lens. Morgan is one of the best portrait photographers I have come across and is definitely built for great things in the photography world.

 

            In the three photos that I have chosen all have something in common; they are simply stunning! In the first photo, I love how the light is reflecting off of the models face giving her radiant skin; her eyes, hair and skin have this magnificent “glow”. In the second photo, I love how the photo has dark colors, the model seems to be in motion yet the she seems to have an orb of light surrounding her giving her a mysterious vibe. In the third photo, I love how the model can wear a colorful outfit that works well in the photo; she can really pull off the “gypsy” look.

 

Eboni Brice weekly post 14

Boguslaw Strempel

Boguslaw Strempel, his photos are something different, the atmosphere is just breath taking.  Using the fog to make these different types of pictures amazing.  He gets the perfect time of day in order to capture the fog that happens within them.  The light in the photos are just stunning, something I have not seen before looking for photos for these weekly posts.  Strempel is dedicated on getting up early to get most of these pictures and he's not afraid to get up high to find the perfect picture for these pictures.

Eboni Brice weekly post 13

Lukas Kozmos

Lukas Kozmos, uses a Sony DLSR-A700 camera.  Kozmos, pictures capture the natural motion of everyday lives, how people would react within there environment naturally.  The bright vivid colors make the picture happy and lively.

Kozmos photos are just energized with movement within them.  The everyday lives of a normal person, running in the park, or running out of the rain to a nice dry place to stay until it lifts.