Richard Hilgendorff
Richard Hilgendorff
Landscape Creations
About
The world is full of beauty, but we rarely slow down enough to see some of the smallest wonders. As a worldscape photographer, my purpose is to capture the simple beauty of the world around us from a perspective that the viewer may have missed in our hurried, busy lives. I want my images to be things or places people have seen before but offer them a new and different perspective to some of the smaller details. To view nature’s normal in an ethereal, transcendent and minimalistic sort of way.
Deep simple colors, negative space and motion/stillness influence my work. By using various camera techniques, I am able to pull out depth and create calmness from motion, enhancing the intensity and calmness of the experience. In the image titled “Through The Ice”, I used a long exposure to push the exposure to the point of over-exposed, transforming the waves in the ocean into a soft misty fog and almost blending them into the grey sky. In contrast, the driftwood tree stands dark, simple and stark and appears to be encapsulated in ice.
All my work is printed on aluminum. I appreciate how this medium heightens the color intensity, creates an almost three-dimensional aspect, and intensifies both the feelings of softness and crispness in an image. Images printed on aluminum don’t necessarily require an additional frame, which is a design feature that I like very much. Not framing the piece supports and enhances the simplistic, minimalist approach I take to my imagery, and allows the viewer to appreciate an edge to edge scene without being distracted by a frame.
My goal is to have the viewer walk away wondering why they had never looked at the world from this particular perspective and challenging themselves to appreciate the beauty around them differently than they have before.
- Richard Hilgendorff
