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Been wanting to ask this for a while - who inspires you with their photography? There are shots that I see that make me think, shots that make me gasp, and shots that I just want to be able to take (oneday, when I grow up ), but there are 'photographers' that inspire me, with their vision, execution and presentation.

Who inspires me? Stephen Dalton - wildlife photographer from the UK who was the first to get a shot of the Jesus lizard walking across water, and was one of the pioneers of infra-red photography in the UK. He used to have a website, but now has all of his photos on nhpa

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There is an article about him here: http://magazine.audubon.org/dalton.html

So, who inspires you?????

You do, Rel!

Others have probably already heard of him, but I only came across this the other day. Thought it was just incredible stuff.

http://www.stevemccurry.com

....thats the guy who shot that famous national geo cover
some good stuff on that site!

steve

hi

oooh, there are so many people that inspire me, there are a lot of great photographers and retouchers. here are a few of them

http://www.franslanting.com/gallery/index.php
http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/1 ... rview.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/1 ... rview.html or http://michaelnicknichols.com/
http://www.anseladams.com/

just to name a few

christian

I have a huge list of people, including many from this forum. For now, I really enjoy: http://www.marcschultz.com

Alex

macka wrote:Others have probably already heard of him, but I only came across this the other day. Thought it was just incredible stuff.

http://www.stevemccurry.com

The picture of the young Afghan girl is amazing .Those eyes . I read a story a year or so back about how they went looking for her twenty years later and found her . I didn't look through the whole gallery but im guessing those pictures are there as well .

As far as inspiration goes motosport shooter Andrew Wheeler . His stuff is great .http://www.automotophoto.com/

When I look in a mirror

in my college days

Dobert Doisneau
as i love paris seen through his eyes

henri cartier bresson

now fashion photographers

Helmut Lang
David Lachapelle
Jez Smith
Troyt Couburn

any many more

Probably Edward Weston the most, but so many, Robert Mappelthorpe, Imogene Cunningham, Olive Cotton, Tim Page,
Robert Cappa, Frank Hurley, Max Duipan.

The list goes on and on. I have a library of photo books at home to call on I find it an essential resource.

You have to know the history of photography to see where it is going.

(Margo's books have words in them, mine have pictures

sirhc55 wrote:When I look in a mirror

Sheila, most definitely.

Narelle,

Great post topic.

In Australia, I absolutely love Dave Watts, Pavel German, Raoul Slater, Glen Threlfo (my mentor when I started 9 years ago), Jiri Lochman.

In case you guys don't know them, they are Australia's premier wildlife photographers

Cheers

Michael

In my field there are a few names that really do inspire me but none have websites so its not really worth mentioning there names.

Outside of what I do I would have to say its the world in all of its awesomeness that actually gives me the inspiration to shoot. The sole provider of every great image we see.


WOW, I didn't know I could go that deep?