ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 9月23日 00時57分

Western Anemone, High Sub-Alpine Firs, on the Whaleback Trail, Yoho NP, Canada. Photo by @peteressick on assignment for @ナショナルジオグラフィック. Most of the photographs I have taken to date in Yoho NP attempt to show the grandeur of the park. Looking around, the prominent mountains, the deep valleys, and the colorful waters all scream out for a photographer to aim a wide angle lens at them all. Recently, I decided to try to also make some photos in the medium range. This approach is most closely associated with the "intimate landscapes" of Eliot Porter (1901-1990). Porter is a personal hero of mine. I love his sophisticated compositions, his masterful technique (he used primarily a 4x5 view camera and made his own dye transfer prints), and the fact that he was productive well into his 80s, but most of all I appreciate the message of his work. Looking through his books (In Wildness is the Preservation of the Earth, The Place No One Knew, Forever Wild, among many) one is struck not only by the beauty and power of wild nature, but by the relationships in the details. If Porter believed - to paraphrase Nancy Newhall - that nature held the answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask, then his photographs say that the way to get nearer to the truths is the look at what is happening right in front of you. Looking at the state of nature photography today, it appears that unfortunately his message has not been heard. The ease of digital capture has broadened the field, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding increase in original work. Most nature photographers seem content to tinker with the latest digital techniques or make attempts at portraying the grandness of nature by over saturating the image in photoshop. The opposite extreme is the belief held by many of our friends in the fine art photography community that nature photographs are just a pleasant daydream with no relevance to the modern world. To both sides and everyone in between I would highly recommend looking at the large body of work of Eliot Porter. At his best, his intimate landscapes provide great inspiration and make me wider about the nature of the world, too.

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