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Jack Curran
USA Nominee Nature Professional "Death Valley Zabrinski Point" Storm clouds, Zabrinski Point, Death Valley National Park A friend recently told me (as he was quoting another photographer), if you want to create better photographs, stand in front of better subjects! I smiled at this simple but true statement. I wish it were that simple for me. I have to work hard at controlling the variables that can be controlled. For me, it takes thoughtful planning to make sure I put myself in the right place at the right time. Of course, a little serendipity mixed with vision helps. After close to 40 years of tinkering with the camera, I think I am finally starting to get it. A perfect example would be the Botanical series represented in Portfolio I. While I have been making photographs at the Missouri Botanical Gardens since my twenties, it took me years to avoid being overpowered by the lush green tropical plants and see that these same plants can be transformed to their simplest and expressive abstract form - black and white defined by highlights and shadows. I�ve used this simple approach throughout my photography, whether mountains, skies, waterfall, slot canyons, flowers or abstracts. Today, I continue to look through the camera with an eye toward discovery. It is this discovery that I hope translates to you through my photographs. |
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