Some would have seen a small, unattractive mud puddle by day. I saw the potential in capturing the lone tree at night with a blaze of stars in the deep black sky above. I returned after dark and with some strategic use of light-painting, I managed to make a compelling image of a relatively ordinary scene.
Born and raised around Big Sur, California, Scott Reither has achieved international recognition as a fine art landscape photographer with a taste for the dramatic and the transcendental. His long-exposure photographs sensitively record the atmospheric effects, lyrical beauty and emotional revelations that occur through the combination of light, space and time. Captured in evocative locations around the world, Reither’s photographs are expressive evidence of the raw and wondrous truths still to be found in the landscape.
