Tag: landscape

Andres Gallardo Albajar

Andres Gallardo Albajar, “Great Wall of China”, 2018

In February of 2018, architectual photographer Andres Gallardo Albajar had expected to create the same tourist-filled images as others who visited the architectural feat of the Great Wall. However when he arrived, he found a thick fog encapsulating the structure. This particular weather added further mystery to the deserted landscape Albajar captured in this photo series.

“I was expecting big amounts of people, even lines to access or things like that, but for my surprise there was very few people, which allowed me to capture the wall with no people, which in my opinion helps to create a more surreal and magic feeling,” – Andes Albajar

Reuben Wu, “Lux Noctis” Series

Reuben Wu, “Lux Noctis” Series

For his ongoing series Lux Noctis, Reuben Wu, the Chicago-based photographer, utilizes modified drones as aerial light sources, illuminating obscure landscapes in a way that makes each appear new and unexplored.

The light from his GPS-enabled drones create a halo effect around some of the presented cliffs and crests when photographed using a long exposure. An elegant circle of light traces the flight of the drone, leaving a mark only perceptible in the resulting photograph.

“I see it as a kind of ‘zero trace’ version of land art where the environment remains untouched by the artist, and at the same time is presented in a sublime way which speaks to 19th century Romantic painting and science and fictional imagery.” – Reuben Wu

The Stand

Photographer Unknown, (The Stand)

“There was a small stand of trees nearby, and from it you could hear the mechanical cry of a bird that sounded as if it were winding a spring. We called it the wind-up bird. Kumiko gave it the name. We didn’t know what it was really called or what it looked like, but that didn’t bother the wind-up bird. Every day it would come to the stand of trees in our neighborhood and wind the spring of our quiet little world.”

-Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Umshiang Double Decker Bridge

The Umshiang Double Decker Bridge

In Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, man has befriended nature and cajoled it into bending to his ways. People build bridges, but the Khasis of Meghalaya grow bridges. Ficus Elastica or the Rubber Tree produces strong secondary roots from their trunks. These  have been trained to grow in a particular direction using betel-nut trunks, forming sturdy, living bridges over decades. Some of these bridges are more than a hundred feet long. The Umshiang Double Decker Bridge is truly one of a kind in the entire world.