Photographer of the Week #3
IAN PLANT
At first, his photos look like all of the others we've seen before, and although they're hardly anything that keeps you from scanning right past it to the next photo, his work reminds me of techniques that I use to experiment with when I had a film camera.... but forgot the techniques existed. I'm that person that made my brother get off of a highway exit in the middle of Arizona on the way back from a trip to the Grand Canyon so I could lay my camera on the entrance ramp while I left the shutter open in order to capture the catrillions of stars. But the reason I like his work is because he inspires me to experiment again.
I love the visual effect in the first photo that the hour long exposure creates. The next two photos are a good use of light; the way the sunbeams burn through the fog and the pines, and then the way that the sunset illuminates the edges of the cacti in the next photo. The last photo is a lengthened exposure to create motion in the stream, and reminds me of the photo I took of a stream in the Smoky Mountains when I had my Pentax K100 wayyyy back when.
I love the visual effect in the first photo that the hour long exposure creates. The next two photos are a good use of light; the way the sunbeams burn through the fog and the pines, and then the way that the sunset illuminates the edges of the cacti in the next photo. The last photo is a lengthened exposure to create motion in the stream, and reminds me of the photo I took of a stream in the Smoky Mountains when I had my Pentax K100 wayyyy back when.
S THE EARTH SPINS ON ITS AXIS, STARS WHEEL AROUND THE SKY LIKE RIPPLES SPREADING FROM A THROWN STONE IN A POND. My campfire, almost a quarter-mile distant, lights the canyon during the one-hour exposure. April 2010, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.
EAMS OF LIGHT PASS THROUGH A CURTAIN OF GEOTHERMAL FOG AS THE SUN SETS BEHIND FROSTED TREES PERCHED ATOP A HIGH HILL. The steam rising from Canary Spring reacts to the cold air, scattering the colorful lght. December 2007, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
HE SUN DEBUTS TO THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE FROM A GROVE OF CHOLLA CACTI. The response from the brittlebush, however, is somewhat more tepid. March 2009, Arizona.
N EXPLOSION OF COLOR GREETS MY EYES AS I TURN AROUND AND LOOK DEEP INTO THE NARROWS. I have been hiking for hours within this majestic canyon, at times wading through water waist deep, looking for a special convergence of light and form. I decide to look back to see the view from a different angle; as sheer luck would have it, I am just in time to witness the peak of color and light. November 2010, Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah.
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