Without a doubt the Halibut Point landscape is riveting in itself. But no matter how compelling the scene, the appearance of a human draws immediate attention.
The person may give us a sense of witnessing intrinsic beauty,...
...or connect with memories of our own beautiful experiences.
Iconic life moments brought to the quarry cliffs add to their drama and poignancy.
Simple gestures unite natural beauty and universal responses.
Unseen beauty in the children's faces amplifies the visible joy of the adults.
Artistic intention combines beauty of content with beauty of composition, into a story of people and place.
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"Why
do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the
deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The
answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be
reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can
convincingly suggest that Beauty is commonplace."
Robert Adams, Beauty
in Photography
Subject, story, and circumstances unite for only an instant into an image distilling life into compositional beauty.
"Photography is by nature on intimate terms with old familiar subject matter; all that remains now is for us to create new illusions in the service of truth." - Robert Adams
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The story of the landscape, even of the people, may be revealed by other actors.
"Though I have just stressed the formal qualities of these pictures, their beauty is not, to repeat, solely a matter of related shapes. Beauty is, at least in part, always tied to subject matter." - Robert Adams
"If a view of geography does not imply something more enduring than a specific piece of terrain then the picture will hold us only briefly." - Robert Adams
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