“The camera interprets life, explains it, dramatizes it, abstracts it – without it, we would be partially blind to what is happening in and to our world.” Phil Douglis
For those or you have not heard of Phil Douglis, I would like to introduce him to you. I first came across his images on pbase several years ago. He has setup his account on pbase as a “cyberbook” on travel photography and travel photojournalism. There is a nice interview of Phil by Alister Benn at Available Light Images here. I suggest you go ahead and check out Phils site. He has some good images to enjoy.
Back in 2006, Mike and I took a three day motorcycle trip from Fort Collins down to the Four Corners area and back up, taking only mountain roads and camping wherever we could. I like this image as it depicts Mike enjoying “what is happening in and to our world” while we watch the sunset at our campsite near Turquoise Lake in Leadville, Colorado.
This image is from a 3-week motorcycle trip I took back in 2004. Unfortunately I do not know the exact location except that it was somewhere in Utah.
4 Comments
Alister Benn
Thanks for the link – I would agree that people should check out Phil’s work – he explains in great detail the need to be expressive with our images, and we discussed this at great length when he came to China to visit me in 2004.
Even though we shoot wildly different subject matter, the principles are the same.
Photography is a visual language and we should aim to be articulate with light as much as we are with words.
As I said in an article a while ago – Light is our vocabulary. Composition and Exposure are our grammar and punctuation.
Cheers.
Monte Stevens
Thanks, Alister. I think I found your website from someone on twitter and enjoyed your site.
Earl
Monte, thanks for the link to Phil’s, and Alister. I’ve already spent some time “visiting” and I’m sure to spend some more.
I really like the “Clouds in Utah” photo.
Monte Stevens
I’ve never met either one but think they both would be interesting photographers to spend a bit of time with. Ya gotta glean something from them.