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Landscape photo of the Snake River by Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is intended to show different spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Photographs typically capture the presence of nature and are often free of man-made obstructions. Landscape photographers often attempt to document the space as well as convey an appreciation of the scenery.

Objectives[link]

Many landscape photographs show little or no human activity and are created in the pursuit of a pure, unsullied depiction of nature^[1] devoid of human influence, instead featuring subjects such as strongly defined landforms, weather, and ambient light. As with most forms of art, the definition of a landscape photograph is broad, and now includes urban settings, industrial areas, and nature photography. Waterfalls, coastlines, seascapes and mountains are especially popular in classic landscape photography. Though most photographs are inspired by traditional landscape painting, the technique can be applied to other subjects; most places and things can be photographed as a landscape, a kitchen, a lamp, a wall, or even the human body. Notable landscape photographers include Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell and Edward Weston.

Environmentalism and landscape photography[link]

From its beginnings and continuing into the present era, some of the most important and celebrated landscape photographers have been motivated by an appreciation of the beauty of the natural environment and a desire to see it preserved. For example, Ansel Adams spoke passionately in defense of the natural world.

See also[link]

• Nature photographers
• Aerial photography
• Underwater photography

References[link]

Joseph E. Holmes is a color, natural light, landscape photographer from California. He is an innovator in the field of inkjet fine art print making, and has developed his own visual calibration software.

Life and work[link]

Joseph Holmes has photographed wild landscapes for over 35 years.^[1]

He has patented a visual calibration system, which is part of the ColorBlind Prove it! software he authored for monitor calibration.^[1] He designed Ekta Space PS5, J.Holmes (also known as Ekta Space or Joe RGB)^[2] to cover the whole gamut of Ektachrome films as a large-gamut alternative to Adobe RGB; it can be usedwith any E6 film.^[3] He has also invented and patented the small gamut way of monochrome image printing.^[1] It ensures no colors are "clipped", when converted from the input color space, and that the characteristics of film stocks keep their fidelity.^[2]

Holmes is a pioneer in the comparatively recent development of using inkjet printers for fine art print making.^[4] He has said:

The best thing about using color management is the ability to see very accurate soft proofs of output: that is, the monitor-to-print match. Most vendors of monitor and profiling software don't seem to understand how important ambient lighting, critical print lighting and screen surround colors are in soft proofing, so most instructions for setting up soft proofing fall short and make side-by-side, screen-to-print matches less accurate than one would like. This is perhaps the third biggest problem for most people, after the overall complexity of color management and inadequate gamma mapping in printer profiles.^[5]

In July 2005, his exhibition, Wild Landscapes, at the Ordover Gallery, California, of "wild" areas of North County demonstrated 35 years spent in development of printing processes.^[6]

His publications include many posters, the series of Last Wildlands calendars, produced with David Brower at Friends of the Earth for nine years, and three books, including two books of landscape photography: Joseph Holmes • Natural Light (1989) and Canyons of the Colorado (1996).

His work is available through the Ansel Adams Gallery.^[7]

Books by Holmes[link]

• Natural Light. Berkeley, Calif.: Yolla Bolly, 1990.
• Canyons of the Colorado. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1996. ISBN 0-8118-1417-3.

Notes and references[link]

External links[link]

• Joseph Holmes website
• Joseph Holmes at the Ordover Gallery
• Brower, Kenneth. "Photography in the Age of Falsification", Atlantic, May 1998. Brower consults Holmes who discusses digital fakery.
• "My Story: Nature Photographer Joseph Holmes" in conversation with Cyril Manning, Breakthroughs, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 2005.

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Andy Katz is a senior college basketball journalist for ESPN.com. He is a regular sports analyst on College GameNight on ESPN. Katz earned a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1990), and has worked for ESPN since January 5, 2000.^[2]

Before Katz joined ESPN he was a sports reporter for The Fresno Bee (1995–1999). He worked at the Albuquerque Journal (1990–1995) and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1989–1990)^[3][4]

References[link]

• Andy Katz ESPN Bio

External links[link]

• Andy Katz on Twitter
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