The beauty of the wild landscape has always had a profound effect on me. I shoot all of my images on film with a large format 4x5, 5x8 and 8x10 wooden view camera.
For me there is something about the craft, tradition and process of film that keeps me passionate about working in this medium. With large format photography I am forced to slow down, think about and embrace that moment in time when I am creating an image.
I feel very fortunate to be at this exciting new time we find ourselves in as photographers. I process my own negatives in traditional methods and then scan the images into my computer and work with them digitally from there. I try with the use of the computer to use the same methods I had long used in the darkroom to enhance my images, and love the flexibility and control I have gained. To me this is the perfect marriage of old and new technology. I print the final image on fine art rag paper to archival standards. This system allows me to control every aspect of the final image and produce very large, high quality giclee prints.
The contrasting effect of light, color, texture and shape all come together to affect the atmosphere in my images. I enjoy the abstract forms that occur naturally in the world around us. I try to use the widest lenses available because that is my favorite way to isolate small some times overlooked subjects and place them in the grand view of the world around us. My hope is that these images will strike an emotional chord with you.
With the right Time and Light, anything is possible!
John Brady
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