AndyMac.Art https://andymac.art Fine Art Photography Sun, 09 Jan 2022 03:38:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://andymac.art/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-pm_logo.png AndyMac.Art https://andymac.art 32 32 Infrared Photos https://andymac.art/2019/10/infrared-photos/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:56:10 +0000 https://andymac.art/?p=2325

What is Infrared?

Well, if photography is the light you see, infrared is the light you don’t see.

It’s a section of the light spectrum that’s invisible. On one side of the light spectrum there are X-rays and gamma rays, and UV, then comes the visible spectrum, and then further past that, the infrared spectrum.

So how do we make infrared visible? We let a camera see it for us, with a special filter.

This filter blocks all the light except for infrared light. Now when we take a picture we’re capturing only infrared light. In color it’s very odd looking…shades of orange and blue, or green and purple dominate the image. But when converted to black and white, the images are stunning. Blue skies become jet black, green trees often become white as snow, and already gorgeous landscapes are transformed into stunning otherworldly images.

It’s not just a black and white landscape…it’s invisible light turned into art.

]]> Waiting it out https://andymac.art/2019/10/waiting-it-out/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:47:59 +0000 https://andymac.art/?p=2279

When an early snowstorm blew thru the Rockies the second week in October I knew that I had a chance to shoot a very special but very fleeting sight: snow on the fall colors. This combination doesn’t last long because either the snow melts off quickly or the colors get killed by the cold, or both. So I packed up the camera bags, grabbed a few Clif bars and headed up towards Kebler Pass, which is not too far from Crested Butte. My goal was to get a shot of the Beckwith Range as the clouds cleared, capturing the dappled light, the brilliant colors and the crisp, fresh snow all at once. I waited around on the south side of Marcellina Mountain for a solid hour, but the shot I envisioned never materialized. The clouds never cleared. However, they did clear around Marcellina and the light broke thru several times. It was in one of these fleeting moments that I captured the image above.

It wasn’t the shot I was waiting for–but then again, perhaps it was. A good photograph is certainly made by knowing where to stand…but another factor is knowing how long to stand there. Sometimes that takes a while. Sometimes it’s cold, snowy, and you’ve driven way too far up a mountain road in a two-wheel drive vehicle! Sometimes it pays off, and sometimes it doesn’t–there’s no way of knowing until after the fact. So there’s only one thing to do: chase the light, see where it leads, and hope that it turns out just as magical as you envisioned it.

]]> I am Andy Mac https://andymac.art/2019/09/hello-world/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:52:53 +0000 http://andymac.art/?p=1

This is me, and I chase light. I’ve been chasing light for the better part of the last 10 years though I didn’t always know what I was doing or why. Since then I have chased the light in Idaho far north, in the deserts of Arizona, and the high Rockies of Colorado, even to as far away as Israel in the Middle East. I’ve shot portraits, product and worked as a photojournalist.  The places, the methods, and the light all change–sometimes quite rapidly, but one thing stays the same: the desire to bring back the magic of the place and its light. So in the words of Jimmy Eat World:
Chase this light with me.

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