Robert Reinhardt

Welcome to my page. If you visit my webpage at: restinpixels.us, the following statement I have posted will make sense. My passion is teaching and making Art, which currently is in Photography. Enjoy browsing through the website.

The photographic images you are viewing on this site are digital. The traditional process usually involves a chemical based developing and printing combination on specially prepared light sensitive paper. That all has changed. Digital photography has descended upon us so quickly and dispersed throughout the masses at such a rapid pace that everyone now has the resources to take sharp, high resolution, colour saturated, value balanced, and compositionally cropped visual images. Imagine everyone now has the ability to be an Alfred Stieglitz, Cecil Benton, Lord Snowdon, or Ansel Adams. Or do they?

The essential elements required in producing strong visual images are: content, craftsmanship, and creativity. The understanding of these basics creates the structure for a successful work. For many years I worked in traditional mediums: paint, watercolour, printmaking, and sculpture. My priority was to find an image that had a vision, my voice. The mediums are only tools to allow that voice to be heard more clearly. Digital photography is the newest of the mediums I now work with. In the past ten years I have found a strong visual voice in my time visiting Scotland. My visits to the Orkney Islands, the Highlands, the urban experience of Edinburgh and Glasgow, have presented me with stunning landscapes filled with light, colour, texture, and spirit. The goal of this body of work was to capture that spirit.

The images displayed here have a lean towards seeking out basic geometric forms. The objects speak more of detail than of the Big Picture. I am fascinated with organic and fluid images juxtaposed to man made structures pop that create visual tension. Images like the weather worn grave monuments in Warriston Cemetery speak of the power of the natural elements wearing down upon man and his made objects. They remind us of the fragile nature of our existence and the temporary nature of the objects we place in our environment. I am also intrigued by the natural selection of textures assigned to objects. There is a journey an object takes through its lifetime when the surface texture goes through.