Sometimes when I am working on projects for clients I will run across images that I feel should be added to the web site. I have added five such images this morning. You can view them in the New Images gallery. This particular image was made while I was on Sanibel Island a few years ago. The colors of the ocean sky and beach were so beautiful that I decided to create an abstract image  in which the bands of color themselves were the subject and the combination of colors would reveal the location and the subject of the photograph.

As a fine art nature photographer the desire to travel explore and photograph in new locations is ever present. Photographs of exotic lands are always popular. However, often the most amazing art is created from the ordinary moments in nature that are all around us. This image I made early one January morning right after we had moved into our new home. I walked out my front door and spied these frost covered leaves. I ran back in got my camera and spent the next 30 minutes creating this image. This image has become one of my most popular photographs.

While still on my trip to Mississippi I noticed a pattern of reeds against the reflections of the sky in a pond.

Clouds and sky reflected in water with abstract reeds and grasses #041808_215crv2

© Byron Jorjorian

It reminded me of a Japanese painting. I began setting up my camera and tripod as if in a trance. Suddenly, while I looked through the lens of my camera I was a child again….watching my father (a commercial artist) painting with brush and ink stone (Sumi-e) on watercolor paper. Tears welled up in my eyes. He died long ago. Would he be proud of my work as a photographer. Am I still trying to please him? I framed image after image and this became the basis for an entirely new collection of images which can be found in the Zen Gallery on my site.

Clouds and sky reflected in water with abstract reeds and grasses #041708_499v2

© Byron Jorjorian

This image is my best selling image of all time. I photographed the two deer on the right for a few minutes and positioned myself low to get a deer’s eye view through the grass.

© Byron Jorjorian

I was pleased with what I was getting, but when the third deer wandered into the image I felt that the composition was complete. This was the image I was after. I looked down at my camera and saw that I had just taken image number 36 on a 36 exposure roll of film (This was back in the ancient days of film). In those days you could sometimes squeeze a 37th frame out of a 36 roll depending on who processed the film.
I had no time to reload so I set the camera to overexpose by 1/2 stop and I fired. Several days later I was in the lab going through the thirty rolls of film I shot during that 3 day photo shoot in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was only interested in finding that photograph so I pulled the last frame out of each box in a frantic search for it. When I found it I was ecstatic, whooping and hollering like a kid. I just knew it would be a winner and it was!