Late this November, after a long day of photography in North Alabama, I packed up my gear, hoisted my pack and began the hike to my car. I had not gone far along the river bank when I noticed these maple leaves. They were on a small sapling growing out from the boulders near the rivers edge. I stopped, dropped my pack and set up the tripod again. The right composition wasn’t readily visible and I found myself working around the leaves until I settled on this composition. Sometimes just telling myself that I am done for the day releases my creativity and I see images I might otherwise have walked past. Often I find that I start back down the trail and spot something else to photograph over and over again all the way back. A thirty minute hike can turn into an hour and a half without even being aware of the passing of time.

You know you are doing something you love when you can’t stop. No matter how tired and hungry you are….

Photograph © Byron Jorjorian

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A botanical abstract.

“Look for what you don’t see.” Rashid Elisha

A Day in the Life of a Nature Photographer

Take a few minutes to learn a little about the thought processes that go into my imagery and the philosophy behind the art exhibit I did, showcased on this Tennessee Wildside television program. They recently ran this story about my exhibit entitled “Missing Nature” that was displayed at The Parthenon in downtown Nashville. It celebrates some of the special areas that The Nature Conservancy has protected in Tennessee.

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Time in nature is marked in moments. I feel that art in general and photography in particular is uniquely suited to sharing those moments. When I created this image I had already spent the morning photographing from just before dawn. I sat down to take a little break and, as so often happens when I clear my mind from concentrating on a subject, a brand new perspective unfolded before me. I now purposely use little breaks interspersed in my creative day to allow myself some time to step back and seek the new perspective…..

Photograph © Byron Jorjorian

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Have you ever noticed how the colors of a photographic print can appear very different under different light sources?

This has been an issue which has bothered me a lot in the digital era.

My solution to this problem is to use mixed lighting profiles and even profiles for specific light sources when I create my prints.

I do this to insure that the colors in your prints appears most accurate no matter what the lighting conditions are.

The profiles that I use are matched to the specific types (canvas, luster, matte etc.) and brands of paper .

What is a color profile?

Simply put, in the creation of a fine art print it is a set of instructions that tells the computer/printer how to render the image on a specific type of paper.

Most photographers and printers using daylight profiles.

Prints look fine under daylight viewing conditions but under flourescent or incandesent lighting the colors can take on radically different hues.

I have been making prints for more than 30 years first in a black and white darkroom, then a cibachrome color lab and now using state of the art digital photographic printers.

The majority of fine art prints which I produce are produced using a mixed lighting profile. It is designed to give the most natural looking color under a varity of lighting conditions. It works well even under conditions where a combination of light sources (for example flourescent and daylight) might both be illuminating the photographic print.

If you know that the image will be viewed only under a specific light source and not moved you can let us know and we can make the print to look best in that environment.

However, if the photograph may be moved or viewed under different light sources it is best for us to use the mixed lighting profiles that I use by default.

I worry about these kinds of details so you don’t have to!

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Though much of my photographic work is in color, occasionally an image just begs to be created in black and white. This was the case as I wandered along a river bank this fall.

“We do not see things as they are….we see them as we are”

Anais Non

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Early morning light touches the trees on the mountainside in this photograph that I  created recently on the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee .

Fine art photographs of nature can make powerful statements as single images.

They are often the focal point of interest for an entire room. Bringing together images that work as sets or groupings is also an effective way to extend the ambiance and flow of nature images throughout a design.
When choosing photographs to be used as sets or groupings it is a good idea to select images that have a common theme and color. The theme can extend to patterns and textures as well as subject. It is even more striking if they have a common style and feel. This often means working with one photographic artist for the entire set. I have had many instances where all of the images were shot on the same day and even represent different compositions of the same subject.

Above and below are a couple of very popular groupings that we have helped our clients with.

Click HERE is a link to some more groupings 

If you would be interested in having us create some groupings for you please let us know.

Photographs © Byron Jorjorian

Some mornings are so beautiful that it is hard to decide which way to go for creating the type of photographs I am after. I came across this sunrise  scene on the way to another potential  location. Needless to say this image stopped me in my tracks and I never made it to the original destination that I had in mind….

I love the art of photographing on mornings just before Fall really sets in. Everything is covered in dew and glistening in the early morning light. I have to work deliberately and fast to create photographs before the light changes and the sun dries up the dew. Here a spiderweb draped with dew becomes abstract art.

Time and location form the framework for this work. 

The season, the hour and the surroundings come together to create the color palette and water is the liquid canvas for my water abstracts.

Photograph © Byron Jorjorian

Fine art photographs of nature can make powerful statements as single images.

They are often the focal point of interest for an entire room. Bringing together images that work as sets or groupings is also an effective way to extend the ambiance and flow of nature images throughout a design.

When choosing photographs to be used as sets or groupings it is a good idea to select images that have a common theme and color. It is even more striking if they have a common style and feel. This often means working with one photographic artist for the entire set. I have had many instances where all of the images were shot on the same day and even represent different compositions of the same subject. Above and below are a couple of very popular groupings that we have helped our clients with.

If you would be interested in having us create some groupings for you please let us know.

Early morning light among the redwood trees.

Photograph © Byron Jorjorian

Fine art photographs of nature can make powerful statements as single images.

They are often the focal point of interest for an entire room. Bringing together images that work as sets or groupings is also an effective way to extend the ambiance and flow of nature images throughout a design.

When choosing photographs to be used as sets or groupings it is a good idea to select images that have a common theme and color. It is even more striking if they have a common style and feel. This often means working with one photographic artist for the entire set. I have had many instances where all of the images were shot on the same day and even represent different compositions of the same subject. Above and below are a couple of very popular groupings that we have helped our clients with.



If you would be interested in having us create some groupings for you please let us know.