Sometimes you can look at something and it immediately translates into something for you, something from which you can take inspiration and make something new. That’s what came to mind for me when I came across this great image from photographer Trey Ratcliff. It’s a panoramic view of a fairytale-like landscape in the Guangxi region of China that he took after scaling a peak similar to those you see in the photo.
It’s just a great image, one that gets my motor racing. I immediately find myself comparing it to my own landscapes, noting how the forms flow together to create a wonderful rhythm in the image. There’s so much that will easily convey into my own work that it is in place before I really have time to think about it. It’s like a jolt of creative electricity. I just need to get to the easel before it rolls to the back of the line of imagery that is formed in my head.
For more of Trey Ratcliff’s incredible photograph’s from around the world, visit his website Stuck in Customs. And check out the image shown above on Google+— it’s a 19,000 pixel high def shot that is fully zoomable so that you can fly in and out of the little valleys in the distance. Pretty remarkable.
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