Charles Judson
Many novice photographers, me amongst them, cannot say for positive why they make panorama pictures, spending illogical quantities of vitality and cash on one thing strongly felt however not effectively articulated. I’m unsure however I do know I benefit from the expertise of being in pure locations the place felt pictures originate in addition to the studio time turning an concept at shutter-button press right into a completed {photograph} with feeling, a way of the place. Plainly for me the Place is the factor. I am retired from a technical profession and have dabbled in various kinds of pictures during the last 50 years however nothing revs my engine like getting out into the pure world, with digicam or not. With is certainly higher. I dwell in Sebastopol, a small city in Northern California.
Close to my house is a protected wetland, the Laguna de Santa Rosa. It is a beautiful place, accessible year-round by a community of trails however in winter the water rises into flood and turns into very vast, the timber at the moment are leafless, and the sensation there adjustments from one thing verdant inexperienced to one thing else, simply blacks, whites, and greys.
Round dawn on a foggy winter morning the place is moody, quiet, magical even, and nothing strikes besides the waterfowl. It’s simple to overlook that civiliasation isn’t distant. These pictures have been taken inside 1 / 4 mile of one another on such mornings.
