Portraits without a Person: Landscape Photography

My co-owner, muse, fellow shutter bug and dear friend Anna Powell of Capturing Time Photography recently discussed where we are 'lacking'.  Photography is an art and when you make that a business, there can be a delicate purgatory where creative energy gets lost to the politics of money; we were trying to be preventative.  We constantly stretch and bend our art and ourselves, looking to grow into better artists.  Anna had mentioned how she wanted to expand on her landscape photography and I too agreed that taking a photo without a person is my biggest struggle.  I specialize in psychology, people, moments of exchange... I didn't feel the same draw to push my shutter when watching flowers or buildings.

How could I grow and build that inspiration? We talked about it, manifested opportunity and started promising to take a photo every time Mother Nature gave us that 'gasp of awe' in her beauty.  The timing of the Universe provided me with two solid months of travel and for that, we discovered a new 'eye'.  I am now looking back over the last few months of our adventures and I love seeing the personality in the world around us.

How do you GROW your Art?

Iowa

Windmills outside Mason City, IA

Frost overlooking 35 hwy Minneapolis, MN

Crater Lake, OR 

Forests of Northern OR

Overlooking Seattle, WA

A baby Redwood in the Redwood National Forest of OR

Nowhere, Iowa

Alton, IL on the outskirts of Saint Louis, MO

Famous Pillsbury Building in Saint Anthony, MN 

Haunted 1st Unitarian Church in Alton, IL

Suspension Bridge at 70/35/downtown exchange Kansas City, MO

Night Investigations at the Belvoir Winery in Liberty, MO

Belvoir Winery (Anna Powell) Liberty, MO

Haunted Winery in Liberty, MO

Odd Fellows Winery in Liberty, MO

Old Odd Fellows Cemetery in Liberty, MO

Flying over OR

Groot spotted at the base of Roxy Anne Peak in Medford, OR

Cave Junction moss growing outside the caves of northern Oregon

Crescent City, California coast 

Flying out of Seattle, Washington 

Crescent City, CA Lighthouse in the sun

Grafton, IL winery view of the River

Grafton, Illinois River view into Missouri