How to Achieve Art in Nature Photography
Plein Aire Art at its Finest
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It’s become a personal goal – to be perfectly candid, to get our
natural world inside, and the staunch and the trapped insiders outside.
Whether it be a national, state, or city park or your own little natural
piece of the world outside your window, there's always something to
discover and delight in our real world. The Masters such as
Picasso and Monet knew it centuries ago, and recent studies prove when
we view just the mere suggestion of nature with things colored green, it
improves our moods, dispositions, and our psyches.
I'm currently considering other outlets, and this photo opportunity seems perfect to expand my horizons so I'm exploring textile art, which I've been admiring lately. Stay tuned.
Bringing nature indoors so it can be enjoyed all year round, and preserving what may be gone in one storm or one season has been a long time goal I share with many wildlife photographer friends.
How can we turn what nature has provided into a piece of art we can hang on our favorite walls to enjoy and find inspiration from every single day?
Photographing nature is the perfect solution to preserve what is real and authentic during our lifetime, not only for our daily pleasure, but for scientists and educators to have an accurate accounting of what is around us and when. The reasons to preserve and embrace out natural world continue for those of us stuck inside, or without the ability to enjoy its beauty every day. Adding beautiful photographs in amongst our prints, is the perfect solution is to enhance the beauty nature provides and adorn our rooms and walls with it.
The vegetation you see, is of course determined by the time of year, so that's another important factor for photographers on the lookout for noteworthy opportunities wishing to capture the authentic. T
On this particular day, it added so much beauty and possibility to a photo of a Great Blue Heron, who suddenly surprised me. It brought to mind Monet’s, “The Water Lily Pond” when he too was surprised by what his ordinary pond suddenly presented. Lore has it that on his walk one day, the water lillies he'd tossed, suddenly exploded with color and for Monet, an inspiration that would continue and lift him into fame.
On my walk, this area was merely slightly flooded turf on the Arrowhead golf course after a hard Myrtle Beach rain. Like artist Monet in 1899, I was impressed with the vegetation in the water rippled by light winds and I knew I had to enhance and preserve it.
Part of what makes a nature photographer successful and puts them above the norm is what Monet's water lillies did for his career as well. A nature photographer must study and become familiar and aware of what different climates offer in not only different seasons, but also be knowledgeable and aware of what specific climatic events can suddenly offer . In this case, I was on the lookout for new and different vegetation to produce texture and thus interest to what was heretofore a hum drum parcel of grass.
For me this Great Blue Heron’s short pause added energy, excitement, and more beauty to the landscape, now full of surprise much like Monet’s lilies.
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