Who inspires you?

[blacknstormy]

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?????

[Manta]

You do, Rel!

[macka]

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

[avkomp]

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

steve

[byrt_001]

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

[Alex]

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

Alex

[drifter]

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/

[sirhc55]

When I look in a mirror

[wendellt]

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

[Dug]

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

[Geoff]

When I look in a mirror

[phillipb]

Sheila, most definitely.

[Finch]

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

[Newidude]

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?