Gary Toth

Gary Toth is a photographer and graphic designer whose work I saw in a local gallery in Niagara Falls. He had an exhibit up of high dynamic range photographs of landscapes and cars. HDR photography is done using specialist software and alot of his images end up having a very painterly look about them. The final images are created by combining five to seven shots captured simultaneously  at different exposures, they end up showing a scene as the human eye sees it - in full detail. Many of his pictures have won awards for his unique approach, I just liked the style of this pieces, the technique he uses really makes them stand out and grab your attention.

Have a look at his other pieces here: http://it-just-clicks.ifp3.com/site/#/page/home/

Spirit of the wild

This images are from a book I picked up at an exhibition of Steve Blooms stunning Photographs. He's a wildlife photographer and has an incredible talent for capturing the personality of his "subjects".  his photos are animals in their natural habitats and viewing many of them you get the feeling of seeing them as they are, in secret, without knowing they are being watched. I especially love some of his close up images of animals eyes, so many species in the world and yet seeing all they eyes together in the book somehow brings us together with the animals and gives me a sense that we all share the world and should do more to preserve that. For a photograph to give me those sorts of feelings they really must be good! I would love the opportunity to travel and take photographs... its a dream right now, but artists like this make me want to make it happen. Maybe one day it will.

The Earth From Above

Yann Arthus Bertrand took this amazing collection of stunning photographs of our Earth from the air. 120 large scale flood lit photographs make up an outdoor exhibition and each photo tells its own story about our changing planet. 

Seen together these images have a huge visual impact, they are inspirational and thought provoking. They definatly inspire me to travel - I want to see the world and all these beautiful things first hand. My dream job would be to travel the world, taking breath taking photographs and writing about what I have seen.

This exhibit moves from city to city so if you get a chance I'd definitely recommend it. It's in Bath City Centre right now.