Z6IIIA_NAMIBIA_06_2025__4312_SEP8_CORD_FINAL_IP
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
― Terry Pratchett
From my three weeks in Namibia—
At the risk of ticking off some people by reacting myself….
Sir Terry’s quote is one of my most repeated mantras. Light is as important to an image as dark. I frequently find myself intersecting this mantra with Michelangelo’s approach to sculpture which was to remove everything that “isn’t” and free the sculpture from the living stone. If you replace the word for “sculpture” with “image” and “stone” with “RAW File” and a dab of The Artist Henri Matisse’s thought “a little white paint goes a long way” you have the entire core of how I post process.
What makes this image work is the use of dark and that a little bit of light goes a long way. What is also interesting is that even though the gesture of the image is so strong that it works extremely well as a black and white, I prefer the color version because it supports the gesture.
But ultimately Art is in the eye of the viewer. Self expression is in the eye of of the image’s creator.
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Turning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. T Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA
#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 100-400mm S lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA
#wacom #calibrite #onone #fineartphotography ##shotonnikon
#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H
#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared #Namibia #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador #Delkin Black
Z6IIIA_NAMIBIA_06_2025__4312_SEP8_CORD_FINAL_IP
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
― Terry Pratchett
From my three weeks in Namibia—
At the risk of ticking off some people by reacting myself….
Sir Terry’s quote is one of my most repeated mantras. Light is as important to an image as dark. I frequently find myself intersecting this mantra with Michelangelo’s approach to sculpture which was to remove everything that “isn’t” and free the sculpture from the living stone. If you replace the word for “sculpture” with “image” and “stone” with “RAW File” and a dab of The Artist Henri Matisse’s thought “a little white paint goes a long way” you have the entire core of how I post process.
What makes this image work is the use of dark and that a little bit of light goes a long way. What is also interesting is that even though the gesture of the image is so strong that it works extremely well as a black and white, I prefer the color version because it supports the gesture.
But ultimately Art is in the eye of the viewer. Self expression is in the eye of of the image’s creator.
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Turning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. T Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA
#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 100-400mm S lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA
#wacom #calibrite #onone #fineartphotography ##shotonnikon
#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H
#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared #Namibia #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador #Delkin Black