Quick, name your top 5 musical artists.

 

Ok, now your top 5 landscape photographers.  Tougher, huh?  Most people can say "Ansel Adams", but then it gets fuzzy.  You might be familiar with Galen Rowell or Art Wolfe.  Or maybe you've been by an "Images of Nature" store and you recognize the name Thomas D Magnelson.  At any rate, big names are few and far between.

 

The artist I want to share with you is a big name on the rise.  I think he might be the best landscape photographer alive (my other two favorite, the aforementioned Adams and Rowell, both deceased).  And he's only 28.  I'm not sure if the landscape photography industry has "risng stars", but if it does... Marc Adamus is one.  The LeBron James of landscape photography.

Perspective is everything. Just ask Julian Beever. Beever is a British artist who specializes in chalk drawings on sidewalks, which utilize specific perspectives to create the illusion of a three dimensional image; a practice called anamorphosis. At first glance it’s hard to believe that there isn’t any computer touchups done to the photographs, but Beever is not only a great artist, but a master of perspective. It is this ability to manipulate perspective that sets Beever apart.

What is on the pavement is a distortion, but when [people] look through the camera they see it in three dimensions

I've recently been fascinated with time-lapse photography. That's right... photography. I literally just learned a couple weeks ago that many of the time-lapse videos I've enjoyed are actually individual still photos stitched together, not video played back at superfast speed. (As a disclaimer *some* of it is video, but much of it is photography). Maybe a simpler way to say this is "Wow. I didn't know my camera could do that."

So, with the same camera that took action shots at a high school football game on Saturday, (and has taken wedding photos, baby portraits, landscapes, macro shots, and more) I've started to dabble in time-lapse photography. What a versatile tool.

This is a series of pieces by Jason McCoy that deals with consumerism.  Below McCoy discusses some of the ideas behind his series.