Urban landscape

Joel Tjintjelaar

Joel Tjintjelaar is an award winning B&W fine-art photographer from the Netherlands. His work has been published on many online websites and in magazines like American Photo, Black + White Photography magazine UK and Dutch magazine Digifotopro to name a few. The artist loves Black and White photography because with the removal of color the essence of objects, situations, scenarios and people can become more visible. http://www.photographyoffice.com/blog/2011/06/the-art-of-black-and-white-photography-by-joel-tjintjelaar

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjintjelaar/

Alessio Trerotoli

I am an italian photographer, born in Rome. Graduated in 2009 in Disciplines of Arts and Cinema, in the same year I started to travel in Europe and in America, taking pictures and making experiences. My first exhibition was in 2010, since then my pictures were shown in several italian galleries. In 2012 I published my first book, “Fuori dalla caverna”, with notes and pictures of my travels and at the end of the same year I began my most important project, "Urban Melodies", where I depict, through superimpositions, an abstract vision of urban scenes from modern metropolis like Rome, New York, Paris, Berlin and many others. In 2013 I won Abstracta Festival with the picture "There is a light that never goes out" and the year after I won another prize in Urban International Photo Contest. In 2015 I realized other projects like "Roma Coast to Coast", a 21km walking trip through my city, and I finished my first 365 Project on Instagram. My "Urban Melodies" project has been featured by Fubiz, The Phoblographer, SRL Lounge, Neoprime Mag, Camerapixo and others international webmagazines. Now I live and work in Rome, waiting for the next travel… http://www.alessiotrerotoli.it/aboutme.html

 Jieun Park

‘I love to travel. Traveling to me is an act that simultaneously brings different emotions such as excitement and loneliness. My works show different images of the places where I actually visited, so that I am allowed to express various emotions and the moments that I physically experienced through the journey.’

Jieun’s personal feelings are described in the form of painted ink marks or better described as calligraphy, which are instinctively spread and dropped on the surface of the paper. She then starts creating comparatively realistic images of the cities within the abstract ink marks, adding colors to convey the emotions she felt at specific moments of her trip – be it happiness, loneliness or eagerness.

Jieun’s cityscapes are at times dull, yet there is something that shines through; and though there are no signs of people living in the beautiful cities in her works, the expression of light, color, greenery and skyscapes makes her work alive. She also recalls moments where she felt emotionally overwhelmed and strong feelings of loneliness as she looked down upon the cities from a vantage point. She adds, our cities are changing very fast while we are busy with our lives. Hence, the dull feeling of the buildings portrays the people in hectic daily life, where she believes only meaningless everyday conversation exists. http://www.redseagallery.com/artists/jieun-park/featured-works?view=slider

Fan Ho

Herbert Bayer

Tom Manley

Landscape Photography

Artist and landscape images I like:

Michael Kenna

Mark Schneider Design

Edward Weston

Definition of natural beauty: Unrefined uncontrolled raw moments of inhuman creations nature presents.

EG:

Ansel Adams

My experience: I was backpacking with a friend in the Goat Rocks Wilderness. We went on a 15 mile day hike the second day up to the top of Old Snowy, a mountain. After reaching half way my mother got tired and decided to go back but my friend and I decided to make it to the top. We finally reached the base area of the mountain and looked up. The mountain was huge, looming over us. I could make out two small specks of hikers making their way down the steep slope. An hour later we made it to the half summit after an exhausting struggle up the trail. The last half mile we climbed on out hands and knees up a wall of loos rocks along the final ridge. Finally we made it to the top. Standing on the tip of the mountain I could see the entire world. Green forest rolled over hills like a carpet. Snow coated the tips of tall mountains. Below us Goat Lake was an opaque turquoise gem, shimmering in the sunlight. My breath was taken away. No human could ever create something quite so beautiful. This artwork could only be made by thousands of years of changing nature, perfect and uncontrolled.