Eliot Porter started loving photography since childhood. He originally planned to be a bio chemist but the people around him including Ansel Adams inspired him to pursue photography. He liked to photograph birds and landscapes of ecological diversity and the environmental stresses they faced. He also
published several books in his lifetime. He was most was famous for his dye transfer printing.
This photo
Redbud Tree in Gymnasium, Olympia, Greece, April 14, 1967 is of a beautiful tree in grece with gray pillars in the background. This photo is a great example of converging lines, texture, time, and space + scale. I am not sure of the story behind this photo, but it makes me feel like im stepping into a fairytale. As if right through those pillars is going to come an old storyteller with a captivating tale to tell me with wise truths woven deep within the story.
http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/porter/images/details/P1990-51-2543-1.jpg
This photo
East Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1938 is of a open lightly cloudy sky and a bay lined with little row boats and traps. This photo is a great example of time, space + scale, and deep depth of field. When Porter met Ansel Adams he and others inspired him to take up landscapes following there style. This inspiration lead him to shoot along the Maine coast and northern New England. This photo reminds me of our house in Maine, and our church gatherings at the bay with all my old friends where we used to swim, fish and dig for clams.
http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/porter/images/details/P1990-54-242-1.jpg
