ENTRY DESCRIPTION
An abstract, photographic artwork direct from nature. Viewers are given an abstract perspective of the delicate, inner portions of a "succulent" plant through the use of intentional lighting and shadows.
AUTHOR
David Calkins is a photographic artist based in South Central Texas, United States, with a passion for wildlife, nature and the great outdoors. His ultimate goal is to transcend traditional "gray scale" black & white, wildlife photography, and to create captivating, artistic visual impressions of wildlife, which resonate with diverse audiences.
As a "photographic artist", Dave Calkins creates enthralling, wildlife artworks through the medium of photography, rather than painting or other artistic mediums. His artworks predominantly focus on the essence of "life" within his wildlife subjects by minimizing surrounding environments and by highlighting individualized features and characteristics of his subjects, such as the intricate mix of light and shadows on facial muscles, eye shapes/reflections, and various textures of feathers, fur, hair, eyelashes, antlers and horns.
Calkins' photographic style provides his audiences with unique, one-of-a-kind perspectives of wildlife presented as fine art and displayed through a variety of methods, to include, but not limited to: high-key photography, low-key photography, and antique, wet plate-type monochrome works of art. Many of his artworks are displayed in a 3D-esque appearance.
Artistic photography is solidly based on the words of the great American photographer, Ansel Adams, whom stated: "You don't take a photograph, you make it."
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