Video: The art of reflection: Trey Ratcliffe's photographic landscapes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American self-taught photo artist Trey Ratcliffe loves traveling to places where there are no tourists with "soap dishes", encourages learning to understand color from the Impressionists and tries in vain to deal with the influx of letters from numerous visitors to his site. And he also believes that it is worth focusing on things that are interesting to himself, and everything else will somehow settle down. The author's skill is best described by his photographic landscapes.
American Trey Ratcliff lives in Austin (Texas), and has seen and photographed many wonderful places: from Chernobyl to Bombay. Photography and travel - what could be better? Most of all Trey Ratcliffe loves Iceland, and considers the Taj Mahal reflected in the water to be the most successful shot.
“There is nothing better than Iceland. Although, perhaps, I shouldn't have said this, otherwise now everyone will rush there, and it will be impossible to shoot properly,”jokes Trey Ratcliffe. Although, of course, tourists with soap dishes, who strive to wander into the frame, are the scourge of any landscape photographer.
It's funny that Trey Ratcliffe is not a photographer by profession. At university, he studied mathematics and computer science, but about 5 years ago he became interested in photographic landscapes. He believes that someone benefits from an art education, and someone is able to make a breakthrough on their own.
In the world, Trey Ratcliffe is the creative director of a computer games company. Once he wondered why the scenery in these games often looks much more convincing than ordinary photographic landscapes. Curiosity and the Internet did their job, and special software benefited the photographic works.
Trey Ratcliffe is fond of painting the Impressionists and believes that only they came close to solving the mystery of light and color. And in his spare time he likes to reflect on why they chose those colors, and not others.
Trey Ratcliffe realized that he was successful when his photographs appeared at the Smithsonian Institution and when the number of visitors to his site began to measure tens of thousands a day. And although the photographer is often tormented by his conscience, the time for feedback is sorely lacking. But he is enough for self-irony and quotes: “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm” (Winston Churchill).
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