Adam Wicinski.

Thanks to the wonder of the internet and a certain social networking site, I have today stumbled across a great photographer, Adam Wicinski. From what I can gather, from his facebook page, he is a Polish photographer but the website listed on his page is not working so I cannot find out much more about him unfortunately.

My first reaction to Wicinski's work is that it is very similar to my own. Plenty of landscape and nature shots with a very 'Michael Kenna' style to them. Mostly black and white images too with dramatic tones and plenty of detail. It was no surprise to see under his 'likes' the Micheal Kenna page! It is very easy to compare Wicinski with Kenna and it is obvious Kenna is very inspirational to him. Wicinski captures similar misty landscapes, dramatic skies, still water reflections as Kenna predominantly uses but without the exotic landscapes that Kenna captures.

This is the first Wicinski image that I saw and it reminded me exactly of this image of Kenna's. The images are strikingly similar highlighting the inspiration Kenna is to Wicinski. I have also taken a similar image but with slight differences to the two images mentioned above:

My own work - 2009

Wicinski's work with reflections is also very 'reflective' of a lot of Kenna's images, like this image of Kenna's, which shows Kenna's fantastic ability to capture such a still and calm water. This makes the water appear like a giant mirror.

Kenna is one of the first photographers that I started to pay attention to and even today I am still inspired by his work. More recently I took this image of the second severn crossing here in Wales and it could be seen by others to compare to Kenna's image from his website's San Fransisco collection.

My own work - 2012

I love the clarity and beauty of Kenna's images and I hope one day to be able to be able to produce such striking images, although I know that time and patience to get that perfect shot are huge factors for that kind of work.

The similarity between the work of Wicinski and myself is noticeable. Wicinski's images are landscapes with the inclusion, on occasion, of a lone solitary figure. He has many images of pathways among trees, like this example of pathway, which whenever I produce images or see images like these, it always makes me inquisitive. Where does the path lead? Does it symbolise the future? Or the past?
But like I have mentioned, I take a lot of these images too, so maybe there is a lot of the same questions through my images.

My own work - 2012

I hope that people viewing my work will see these pathways as positive and a gateway to the next chapter of my work.