Ata Photography
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“Natural Inspirations”
Beauty, adventure and passion sum up my philosophy of photography. My earliest inspiration as a photographer was the combination of camping in the Yosemite Valley with my family and seeing the photographs of Ansel Adams. This was over 30 years ago and my camera has been my constant companion ever since, as I travel the world, capturing the beauty of the natural world through my lens.
My response to the hurried world that we live in is to draw attention to the wonders that lie all around us but we are too busy or preoccupied to notice. I like to draw the viewer into the tiny “God-is-in-the-details” treasures that so often go unannounced and unappreciated, encouraging people with a visual, “Hey, look at me!” into the depths of creation.
I grew up deeply connected to my European heritage, and as a result, I am committed to recording various landscapes and the cultural identities that they engender, including European, Asian and Native American peoples. I am concerned about the loss of the diverse, cultural flavors of the world through the rapid assimilation into the modern industrialized world. Photographing musicians as they perform is also a passion of mine, and in particular, I have enjoyed working with East European gypsy musicians and others from various parts of the world.
I am also committed to an ecologically sustainable future, and hope to inspire others to this commitment through my images. Travel, culture, music, the arts, the natural world, architecture; all are combined into an organic statement urging the viewer to love and take good care of our home and the people who share it.
I would invite individuals to indulge, explore and comment on the works they see. They say “Every picture tells a story” and I strive to tell a great story in the images I present. I feel at times I have just begun to tell the stories of so many places, landscapes, cultures, and people, but hope that in this short lifetime I will be able to accomplish a pictorial novel through my photographs. Intertwining a intimate relationship with the images and the viewer would fulfill part of my existence.
Beauty, adventure and passion sum up my philosophy of photography. My earliest inspiration as a photographer was the combination of camping in the Yosemite Valley with my family and seeing the photographs of Ansel Adams. This was over 30 years ago and my camera has been my constant companion ever since, as I travel the world, capturing the beauty of the natural world through my lens.
My response to the hurried world that we live in is to draw attention to the wonders that lie all around us but we are too busy or preoccupied to notice. I like to draw the viewer into the tiny “God-is-in-the-details” treasures that so often go unannounced and unappreciated, encouraging people with a visual, “Hey, look at me!” into the depths of creation.
I grew up deeply connected to my European heritage, and as a result, I am committed to recording various landscapes and the cultural identities that they engender, including European, Asian and Native American peoples. I am concerned about the loss of the diverse, cultural flavors of the world through the rapid assimilation into the modern industrialized world. Photographing musicians as they perform is also a passion of mine, and in particular, I have enjoyed working with East European gypsy musicians and others from various parts of the world.
I am also committed to an ecologically sustainable future, and hope to inspire others to this commitment through my images. Travel, culture, music, the arts, the natural world, architecture; all are combined into an organic statement urging the viewer to love and take good care of our home and the people who share it.
I would invite individuals to indulge, explore and comment on the works they see. They say “Every picture tells a story” and I strive to tell a great story in the images I present. I feel at times I have just begun to tell the stories of so many places, landscapes, cultures, and people, but hope that in this short lifetime I will be able to accomplish a pictorial novel through my photographs. Intertwining a intimate relationship with the images and the viewer would fulfill part of my existence.
