TerraNovaPhotography's galleriesRobert E. Younger began taking pictures as a kid, quickly moving from a small Brownie to borrowing his parents’ more sophisticated 35mm camera. But after discovering the possibilities of large-format cameras--awkward-looking contraptions that look like throwbacks to the age of silent movies--Younger progressed from picture taking to making photographs. He likens this artistic process of visualizing and then recording images on film to the way a painter imagines scenes and then puts those mental pictures on canvas.
It is the large-format camera itself--Younger uses an 8x10--that offers the photographer this kind of control. First, larger negatives require less enlargement, resulting in sharper prints and finer textures. Second, the camera’s accordion pleats, tiltable lens, and moveable film plane allow for infinite adjustments.
Now a master of his art, Younger tells a story with each photograph—from vast landscapes or dramatic architecture to intricate details of wood, rocks or beach sand. Further, each image can be viewed as a metaphor for places, ideas and experiences beyond the scene itself—providing both a window into the artist’s heart and a mirror reflecting new insights into the viewer’s own thoughts and experiences. A branch can become the entire forest; a window, the world.http://www.smugmug.com/img/smuggy64.gifhttp://terranovaphotography.smugmug.com/2007-08-23T13:05:41ZCopyright 2009, the copyright holder of each photograph. Some portions copyright SmugMug. 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