BILL RODGERS
Bill Rodgers
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I developed a love for beautiful landscapes at an early age while camping in the mountains and beside lakes with my Spokane family. I developed a taste for the exquisite landscape paintings of A. Bierstadt, F. Church, T. Cole, T. Moran, and G. Innes of the Hudson School's Luminist movement at an early age. I later came to admire the compositional style of the Asian silk screen painters.
I now endeavor to capture landscape images in which the juxtaposition of lines, textures, colors, objects (elements), and compositions meld to form sumptuous, elegant images - creating compelling and lyrical visual playgrounds for the eye to explore and enjoy. I am not a literalist who feels that a photographic image must be 100% faithful to what the camera captures. If an errant branch or stone ruins an image's composition, I will remove it. If a photograph is just too literal, I will employ subtle digital abstraction techniques to enhance how the eye and brain process the final image. My goal is to print beautiful images, not accurate images. In other words, I consider myself to be an artist - not a photo journalist.
My larger prints are intended to be viewed from a distance of at least three to five feet. I strongly believe that a photographic print lacking mood is a wasted print.
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
Bill grew up in Spokane, Washington, and attended Whitman College, graduating with a BS in Biology in 1970. Eight years later he completed a BS in Geology (always a favorite science) with an additional year of graduate level geologic coursework, and substantial study of Mining Engineering. After graduation, Bill spent ten years as an economic geologist - searching the American West for precious metal deposits and evaluating them for production. In 1987 he transitioned into the Environmental Consulting industry, working in the U.S., Canada, and Central America for 34 years. Through it all Bill's cameras were never far from his side. Since retiring from a three-year long, full-time consulting assignment at Hanford in 2013, Bill has focused his efforts primarily on fine art landscape photography. A member of the Blue Mountain Land Trust Board of Directors since 2018, Bill has contributed to and edited four of the organization's popular photography books titled "The Blues." Bill is currently working on Volume VI of the collection.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I developed a love for beautiful landscapes at an early age while camping in the mountains and beside lakes with my Spokane family. I developed a taste for the exquisite landscape paintings of A. Bierstadt, F. Church, T. Cole, T. Moran, and G. Innes of the Hudson School's Luminist movement at an early age. I later came to admire the compositional style of the Asian silk screen painters.
I now endeavor to capture landscape images in which the juxtaposition of lines, textures, colors, objects (elements), and compositions meld to form sumptuous, elegant images - creating compelling and lyrical visual playgrounds for the eye to explore and enjoy. I am not a literalist who feels that a photographic image must be 100% faithful to what the camera captures. If an errant branch or stone ruins an image's composition, I will remove it. If a photograph is just too literal, I will employ subtle digital abstraction techniques to enhance how the eye and brain process the final image. My goal is to print beautiful images, not accurate images. In other words, I consider myself to be an artist - not a photo journalist.
My larger prints are intended to be viewed from a distance of at least three to five feet. I strongly believe that a photographic print lacking mood is a wasted print.
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
Bill grew up in Spokane, Washington, and attended Whitman College, graduating with a BS in Biology in 1970. Eight years later he completed a BS in Geology (always a favorite science) with an additional year of graduate level geologic coursework, and substantial study of Mining Engineering. After graduation, Bill spent ten years as an economic geologist - searching the American West for precious metal deposits and evaluating them for production. In 1987 he transitioned into the Environmental Consulting industry, working in the U.S., Canada, and Central America for 34 years. Through it all Bill's cameras were never far from his side. Since retiring from a three-year long, full-time consulting assignment at Hanford in 2013, Bill has focused his efforts primarily on fine art landscape photography. A member of the Blue Mountain Land Trust Board of Directors since 2018, Bill has contributed to and edited four of the organization's popular photography books titled "The Blues." Bill is currently working on Volume VI of the collection.
Spring Camas
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The Road Less Traveled
photo 12x18
$300