Faces In The Rocks

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Joel Simpson's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>FACES IN THE ROCKS: Beyond Landscape to Psycho-Geological Photography</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> pushes the boundaries of original landscape photography. It starts with extraordinary landscapes-caves drone views and more-then launches into imaginative domains of entirely natural abstract compositions and figuration (Faces in the rocks). These surrealist-tinged images always faithful to their found forms (NO AI) reveal unique photographic perspectives and original ways of seeing that expand the horizons of photographic imagination.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For those seeking creative photo approaches in a crowded field this photographic vision book shows how to rise above convention by enhancing creative vision and unlocking untapped originality.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The images themselves range among the perverse ironic grotesque monstrous prophetic satirical enchanted mythological paleontological erotic scientific commercial and cartoonish. The accompanying text provides an analytical and historical framework offering challenges to traditional landscapes while proposing fresh avenues for creative expression.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Finally the book embraces photographic fiction: real rock formations (and dried mud) captured through a fisheye lens and recontextualized as imaginary heavenly bodies-asteroids moons of made-up planets and Anthropocene Ruins of a fearsome future.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A practical how-to section guides photographers to the best locations for discovering subjects and demonstrates editing techniques critical for transforming raw rock and ice into powerful artworks. The book concludes with brief color photo essays on six of the author's favorite image-hunting grounds plus a bibliography and site list.</span></p><p></p>