Blog Prompt #25

Well, there are quite a few photographers on this list, so I admit that I didn't get to look through them all, but these seven stuck out to me before I even made it to the bottom, so I'll work with these...

To include in my gallery:

Erik Sumption

It was the bold colors and forms of Sumption's photographs that first caught my eye. I especially love the reflection photo--the saturation of the colors in the reflection make the photo abstract, and almost like a painting, which I'm always dawn to.

Keith Lewis

Here again it was the painterly quality of the photographs that appealed to me. The subject matter seems to take its inspiration from romantic and classical paintings of nudes, and the lighting in each is both diffuse and richly warm.

Chris Sembrot

This artist only submitted one photograph, but the wealth of detail and texture in the image makes it one of my top pics. A fish eye lens must have been used, as it looks distorted in that way. The horse nearly blends in with its wild surroundings, and the man almost looks suspended, the single, softer-looking element in the midst of the ruggedness.

John F. Martin

I think I just really like costumed portraits, that, while covering up the true nature of their wearers, still express something about them. I love the detail of these "characatures" ; these fantasy personas. It's as if they're all characters from a single play, and the job of the viewer is to construct the story from viewing them.

Ljubodrag Andric--favorite!

I love the "airiness" of these photos. Each is so clean and simple, with small figures placed in open sky, fields....open spaces, in general. The environment is surreal, and the figures are alone, but not lonely. They seem in harmony with their environment, and comfortable despite a slightly uncomfortable vastness.

Justin Borsuk

I feel like this is a simple technique--take multiple shots of something, and then layer them over one another--but Borsuk manages to do it in a way that feels new. His photos convey motion, but at specific moments in time, rather than a continuous blur of action.

J. T. Burke

The thing that draws me to Burke's work is that they don't look like photos--they look they illustrations. They're very unique, and I have no idea how he accomplished making them, but I like that they're surprising in that way. And of course, I like illustrations. :) There's a kind of symmetry to many of them that reminds me of chinese paper cuts, and pop-up books. Yet, if you look closely, you realize that they're not actually symmetric, but each part is uniquely formed. Pretty cool stuff.