Philip Richard - Nature in Wide Photography | Blog : Beyond the images

What happens before, during and after the creation of an image ? Conceptualize... feel.... put into perspective...

So that each image finds its meaning in the fresco of Nature, of Humanity, of the Universe

These are the moments that I tell here

Shore of a new Universe

Shore of a new Universe

A pristine shoreline... as in the earliest days of the Earth...welcoming the timid reflections of a few stars among the billions in the Galaxy...as if within reach...In the distance, the first… ›

Galactic Allegory

Galactic Allegory

First, the goal was a lavender field in Provence under a starry sky...then the geometric harmony between the galactic arch and the perspective of the lavender rows ...finally I realized that the… ›

Out of Earth - Monument Valley

Out of Earth - Monument Valley

How do you photograph an iconic site like Monument Valley without becoming a cliché? By imagining it on another planet! ... No artificial intelligence here, just a few natural ingredients: the… ›

Sacred Earth

Sacred Earth

Chance or destiny? how can you live and capture such a moment of light when the forces of Nature are unleashed on this extraordinary panorama? I could say, of course, that I'd planned to be there for… ›

Dunes - Blue Hour

Dunes - Blue Hour

I had not come for this photograph, yet this landscape is the result of a long search for framing and symmetry in the dunes during the previous days. I had already imagined everything, the shapes,… ›

Millenium Forest

Millenium Forest

Six hours of walking in the snow and finally the vision I had dreamed of long ago appears to me. A battalion of thousand-year-old watchmen stands there, all straight up to the sky. It is at the… ›

The Wave

The Wave

A mountain road at night in southern Utah, snow flurries are breaking in a white storm, I start to doubt if I will reach my destination. Finally, luck is on my side. It will be again the next morning… ›

Sidereal Night II

Sidereal Night II

A pure horizon line between the sky and its image on a vast mirror of water. There are few places in the world that offer such a panorama. I found one in the Camargue with already in mind a whole… ›

Navajo Moon

Navajo Moon

Night falls on Navajo land. I still have in mind the images of the deep and colorful meanders of Antelope Canyon as I watch the moon rise over these waters that hide a great secret, a sunken canyon… ›

The Seven Cities of Gold

The Seven Cities of Gold

Imagine, the 16th century, the time of the great discoveries, the conquistadors sent by Antonio de Mendoza, the viceroy of New Spain, progress with difficulty in a forest of altitude of the New… ›

Into the World

Into the World

In their legend of Genesis, the natives of this land tell us that the first humans ascended from inner worlds through openings in the sky, until they reached the world where the sun, the moon, the… ›

The Four Worlds

The Four Worlds

The myth of the creation of the World of the Navajo people traces the birth and progression of the Humans ("Diné") through 4 successive worlds. It all begins with the Sacred Wind that generates the… ›

Dark Side of the Sun

Dark Side of the Sun

I have always particularly liked this photograph. It came to me unexpectedly at the end of a photo trek in the early morning in a remote canyon of the Navajo territory. We had already spent 2… ›

Vertigo

Vertigo

How to recreate the impression of vertigo? The idea came to me from a small bridge spanning a precipice above the Ubaye river in the Alps. The eye naturally follows the course of the stream… ›

Antediluvian

Antediluvian

In the peaceful waters of the Everglades lives a fearsome predator, an indestructible animal. It appeared on earth over 200 million years ago; it lived alongside the dinosaurs during the Jurassic and… ›