2nd place
silver star award
Scott Reither
united states Photo © Scott Reither
title
A PLACE TO REFLECT
Years later, the moment I had been waiting for presented itself. I was out exploring the peninsula when I noticed that the tree had been de-cluttered. The forlorn pile of leaves, branches, and trash had been replaced by a clean, healthy element of nature. The tree stood in all its glory, almost as if it was aware that at that moment, it was becoming part of something beyond itself. Beside the tree, about 20 yards away, a shy mud puddle that was a few feet in diameter had formed from a recent downpour.
With some work to refine the light-painting and fine-tune the capture, I was confident to call it a good image. Still, this experience was more than just a good image. It was a valuable and healthy reminder that the photographic eye can see visual harmony and bring out the beauty in the mundane, and that time is an important aspect of beauty manifested through patience and grasped through reflection.
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entry description
For many years, I noticed this tree on the Keanae Peninsula, Maui. It had the kind of beauty that stands out when the moon is out, the land quiet, and the night dark. I had such a strong desire to capture it, only if I could rid it of the burden that life had thrown onto its branches - buoys, ropes, and other elements of life found around the beach. It seemed as though it became a target for people who needed a spot to dump misplaced materials lying on the beach. Soon enough, the tree stood littered, its beauty stripped away, and in its place, a longing for freedom.Years later, the moment I had been waiting for presented itself. I was out exploring the peninsula when I noticed that the tree had been de-cluttered. The forlorn pile of leaves, branches, and trash had been replaced by a clean, healthy element of nature. The tree stood in all its glory, almost as if it was aware that at that moment, it was becoming part of something beyond itself. Beside the tree, about 20 yards away, a shy mud puddle that was a few feet in diameter had formed from a recent downpour.
With some work to refine the light-painting and fine-tune the capture, I was confident to call it a good image. Still, this experience was more than just a good image. It was a valuable and healthy reminder that the photographic eye can see visual harmony and bring out the beauty in the mundane, and that time is an important aspect of beauty manifested through patience and grasped through reflection.
about the photographer
Born and raised around Big Sur, California, Scott Reither has achieved international recognition as a fine art landscape photographer with a taste for the dramatic and the transcendental. His long-exposure photographs sensitively record the atmospheric effects, lyrical beauty and emotional revelations that occur through the combination of light, space and time. Captured in evocative locations around the world, Reither’s photographs are expressive evidence of the raw and wondrous truths still to be found in the landscape. Scott Reither lives in Maui with his wife Rebecca and travels frequently on photographic projects.back to gallery