ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Its past midnight and Two Mountain Hares (Lepus timidus) engage in a fight
deep in the remote, snowy wilderness of northern Norway. Used a slow shutter speed to to show motion in the hares and transform the falling snow into streaks and flashes of light. This visual effect not only highlights the motion and energy of their conflict but also enhances the enchanting and surreal atmosphere of the Arctic night.
AUTHOR
I was born in Sambeek, one of the smallest and quietest towns you can find in the Netherlands and live now in Sundsberg, Kirkkonummi in the south of Finland. I have been photographing nature and wildlife for over a decade, run photo tours in the Nordics on my own as well as for NatureTalks (NL) and am a public speaker. Published by various magazines in Europe and had an exhibition in Helsinki, named imaginature.
My style of photography is often referred to as imaginative, minimalistic, and 2-dimensional. For me, it is just important to respect nature and present the subject and surroundings in a manner of its simplest components, function over form. That is how I experience nature, that is how my photography has evolved over the last 4-5 years.
Less is more. I believe that is all what a minimalist style of photography should be about. In this context, minimalism using high- and low-key photography is about simplifying the reality by leaving elements and details out of a frame, removing them, or making them simply disappear, to a minimum that needed to get the focus directly on the subject. Isn’t there anything better than looking at a photo which triggers inner emotions?
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