Rick Reed Rick Reed
I have been photographing landscapes in nature for over ten years. I am constantly drawn to places that provide vistas of vast formations as well as more intimate human-scaled natural creations. The places I like to photograph best provide both. Shore Acres at Cape Argo in Oregon is one of those places. The coastline there is rugged and vast with cliffs plunging into deep pacific waters. There is a places where the surf and incoming swells crash headlong into an immovable precipice. Leaving the water nowhere else to go, the rock wall diverts in a crashing spray tremendous amounts of water high into the air. I have seen people standing near this spot during a storm, I being at a distance, and witnessed a thunderous fanning gush of water spray nearly forty feet into the air, dwarfing the all-to-close spectators. As storms are none too rare on the Oregon coast, and with the Ocean being rough enough on a normal day, the coastal cliffs of sandstone get an unending pounding of surf and wind. Consequently, the cliffs are under constant revision by the erosive powers of the sea. There are many strange and beautiful formations arising out of the sandstone. One that I always returned to was a collection of orbs half extending from the face of the rock wall facing the ocean. The feelings I get from these orbs is that they are like primordial eggs containing the seeds of creation.
I have been using computers for since 1979. I have watched and participated in there development as tools for all kinds of artists. I find it fascinating that I can take my photographs and use them as a starting points to make other creations, rather than being the end of a process. I find Photoshop to be a great tool for extending a photographic image into the realm of imagination. I used it on "Night Orb" in the hope of somehow accentuating the feeling of the primordial mystery of creation that I get from the orbs themselves.
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