Robert E. Younger began taking pictures as a kid, quickly moving from a small Brownie to borrowing his parents&#8217; 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&#8217;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&#8212;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&#8212;providing both a window into the artist&#8217;s heart and a mirror reflecting new insights into the viewer&#8217;s own thoughts and experiences. A branch can become the entire forest; a window, the world. http://www.smugmug.com/img/smuggy64.gif http://terranovaphotography.smugmug.com/Art/ 2009-12-18T01:11:52Z Copyright 2009, the copyright holder of each photograph. Some portions copyright SmugMug. All rights reserved. SmugMug <p><a href="http://terranovaphotography.smugmug.com">TerraNovaPhotography</a><br />Death Valley, Dunes and Dead Plant</p><p><a href="http://terranovaphotography.smugmug.com/Art/Fine-Art-and-Architecture/285858_gHPRo#138383831_tN6fo" title="Death Valley, Dunes and Dead Plant"><img src="http://terranovaphotography.smugmug.com/Art/Fine-Art-and-Architecture/dv-dunes-dead-plant-snst001/138383831_tN6fo-Th-2.jpg" width="150" height="119" alt="Death Valley, Dunes and Dead Plant" title="Death Valley, Dunes and Dead Plant" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /></a></p> 2009-10-11T02:41:27Z TerraNovaPhotography http://terranovaphotography.smugmug.com http://terranovaphotography.smugmug.com/Art/Fine-Art-and-Architecture/dv-dunes-dead-plant-snst001/138383831_tN6fo-Th-2.jpg