Panoramic Landscape Vignettes
Posted by Marc on October 5, 2007Traditional panoramic landscapes are broad, wide-angled vistas. Leaves are a mottled amalgam of green shades. The blue sky is a vast smooth ceiling over an image with few discernible details. The landscapes I like to capture have enough fine detail to draw you into the image?step forward and look closely at the image. Find a trail on a mountainside. Examine the geology of a streambed. I call these images Panoramic Landscape Vignettes.
Panoramic Landscape Vignettes are large close-ups of intimate landscapes. A panoramic landscape vignette takes a small scene and brings it close to you?as if you sat down on the ground and looked at a flowing creek in deep woods. The images evoke a primeval time. They are gnarled and pockmarked. Textures on trees and rocks are visible. The viewer can see that leaves are soft and fragile. The photos make you want to get down and smell the pinecones and the moss.
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