Canadian Rocky Mountain Fine Art Prints
Why take a Photo, Why make an Image – is it the Beauty?
I want to start with a question; The beauty in this scene – is it by chance or design? As a landscape photographer, I am captured by the sheer and stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies. By that, and by the incredible, precise, delicate, complex, and unfathomable work of a creative designer! Who made this? Who designed this?
This is Canadian Rockies Fine Art, and that is what beckons me to make images, Fine Art images, of the Banff and the Canadian Rockies Landscape. A musical score is just marks on paper until someone or group, band, etc PLAYS the score – then it is Music. An image is just dots on a sensor, in your smart phone, or your DSLR – but nevertheless – only when the file is Printed do you have Canadian Rocky Mountain Fine Art for enjoyment, decor, and ambience.
As an Artist working with Photography as my medium people may ask – why this image? Well, to me, an image is captured and made for several reasons. But first – the basics of a photo are simple and mechanical – the way photographs are made: ( from Andrew Molitor- PetaPixel) –
“The camera records a scene automatically, mechanistically, and in a very detailed way…. The sensor in the back of the box mechanistically records that two-dimensional copy of the world, and makes something out of it. It makes a digital file, that file is the modern-day negative. It makes something we can turn into a flat representation, a rectangle covered with literally thousands of “dots” of tone and color. When one looks at this rectangle of dots, it causes an emotional and visual response that is, in my hopes and efforts – a representation for you – if you t would have looked at the original scene.” In the same philosophy, I am taking my reaction, vision, and emotions – of this very short, special, and brief moment – and turning these reactions to the scene before me – into a piece of Canadian Rocky Mountain and Banff Fine Art Prints. In this way I hope to both transport you to Banff and the Canadian Rockies and, as well, give you the emotion, visual delight, and awe of that scene!
One of the Masters of Photography Henri Cartier Bresson said this – “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. “ This is what he called the “decisive moment” and, while he was a street photographer, it holds true to landscape photos and images. My “tag line is “ Special Moments in the Rockies, Captured in a Print Forever”. They capture a Special Moment (decisive moment) the instant the shutter is fired. Of equal and vital importance is the Light on the scene and, the Composition ( organizational forms – Bresson).
Another of the Masters, Eliot Porter explains it this way “ Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
These insights resonate with me! I am fascinated by the moments ( the Special Moments I call them ) that happen in nature and the landscape and my effort is based on making an image to capture and preserve these moments of, for me, awestruck reaction, to what has been created and sits before my eyes.
Yet another of the Masters ( Edward Weston ) said this; “ The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.”
Finally, another of the Masters, greatly revered and known for his landscape work ( Ansel Adams ) made some very poignant comments on the topic:
1) “Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?”
2) “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
And a personal favorite
3) “Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
And one most poignant quote from a Master as I close this post:
Edward Steichen “ A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.”
So, I ask again, with fuel for a reaction from the quotes given and the images presented – in light of these insights quoted :
The beauty in these scenes ( Canadian Rocky Mountain Fine Art Prints ) – by chance or design?
I make images from the scenes before me in Banff National Park and the Canadian Rocky Mountains. These images are my homage to Canadian Rocky Mountain Fine Art prints! You can SEE more ( and even do a LIVE WALL PREVIEW) from my website – www.gitaphotos.com.
“Special Moments in the Rockies, Captured in a Print Forever.”