Eric Bennett
As a full-time nature photographer, creator, and conservationist, I hope to share the worth that wilderness has in its pure, unaltered state. In a world the place we’re disconnecting from nature increasingly on daily basis, I can’t consider one other pursuit extra worthy of my time and vitality. I consider that if I can seize a scene in the appropriate manner, my images will encourage others to guard the previous couple of wild locations we nonetheless have left.
I at present dwell simply outdoors of Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah with my spouse and three youngsters. Whereas a lot of my images is concentrated on the unimaginable surroundings close to my residence, I’ve traveled to over thirty nations to seize the various and noteworthy great thing about all totally different environments.
Images could be essentially the most practised craft that exists in the present day. Particularly with how widespread smartphones have develop into, practically each particular person on this planet takes images in some capability. 3.2 billion pictures are uploaded to the web. Each. Single. Day. When utilizing a digicam, we have now so many selections for potential topics of our images: folks, animals, buildings, automobiles, bushes. Your entire bodily world will be photographed. However each time we take {a photograph}, we have now to begin by making this primary vital selection; what is going to we {photograph}?
The topic of our images—the issues we select to make images about—is vastly extra vital than the sort of digicam or lens we use to take action. The truth is, I’ve come to consider that the connection you’ve along with your topic is the best figuring out issue of the standard of the images you make of it. As a photographer myself, I’ve discovered little or no to no real interest in making images of individuals, cityscapes, cars, man-made constructions, weddings and occasions, or the rest moreover pure issues and locations. Because of this nature is the only topic of my images as a result of I’ve a powerful curiosity in it, and why I don’t {photograph} the rest. My love for nature is what bought me into images, as I really feel it’s the greatest medium I can use to painting the pure topics and scenes that I discover significant. I didn’t develop into eager about nature as a result of I liked images and wanted to seek out one thing to {photograph}. My love for nature bought me eager about making images of nature. That’s why it’s referred to as “nature images” as a substitute of “images of nature”—nature first, images second. My principal style is nature, the sub-genre is images.
