How a Fellow Photographer Inspires My Fine Art Photography
A recent article on a photography blog got me thinking about the photographers that inspire me. Who are they, and why do I admire them? What makes their photography enjoyable to me? What draws me in to their photographs on a regular basis? Why is it that they inspire me want to pick up my camera and create fine art photography?
Top of my list, without a doubt has to be Joe McNally. Simply put, Joe’s photographs tell a story, and that is what photography is all about – telling a story. Taking an emotion or an event and capturing one slice of time to convey that feeling, and for me nobody does it like McNally does. Click on the link, check out Joe’s work, I can assure you that you will not be disappointed.
Joe has a photograph that he made of Kermit the Frog looking sad while sitting in puppeteer Jim Henson’s director chair after Jim passed away. I remember seeing that photograph on the cover of Life magazine, and being struck by how powerful it was. To this day that photograph brings a tear to my eye.
It is this powerful emotional response that has inspired me into fine art photography. I strive to create photographs of the things that I love that create that same response with my viewers. Take a moment to view the photographs that I have created in my fine art print gallery