Nature is closed for business and we won’t travel for the foreseeable future. So the only way to have a look at destinations which convey the hearth is to look at some catalogue images. And for me, print is the final destination for a good image. You can’t judge an image from the 3 inch sized display of your camera. And images will always look better in the physical rather than the digital form.
There’s no doubt that my images look better when printed. It’s whether an image holds up in print determines if it is any good. Only when being printed the size of a dinner table you can see if it’s good enough to be looked at for a long time. Whether it is strong enough to trigger an emotional reaction.
There’s no point in going all the way up the Jurassic Park like jungle of Uganda and coming back with just a “good” image of these prehistoric primates. And I think I nailed it with this one. Even when printed this size it has ponsharp details which take hours to unravel. You can actually count the individual hairs and the blood vessels in his eyes. And even through all these details, the images breaths tranquility due to the negative space the leaves of the dense jungle provide.