@erinbabnik’s journey to becoming a #CanonExplorerOfLight: “When I created ‘Flowers for Miles’ in 2014, the immense response that I received exceeded anything that I could have expected. I simply wanted to share the results of some exploration, experimentation and to answer a challenge from a photographer named Miles who had been egging me on to release a new image. Although I had been a photographer for about 10 years, passion projects were not the ones bringing me much income then. Expressive landscape images like this one amounted to personal work in those days, while more documentary photos supported it all financially.
The image, featuring a distinctive mountain that most people had never seen and techniques that were not yet in widespread use, came out of a period when landscape photography as a genre was undergoing a swift transformation. Digital pioneers of the time embraced new in-field techniques that necessitated post-processing work, and I was one of a small number of photographers who had been on that track since before the era of social media. Ultimately, this image became the most significant one in a body of work that drew great attention to me, to the techniques that I used, and to the Italian Dolomites.
Over the years, other images in my portfolio eclipsed it in popularity, and my style and habits evolved, but the image solidified my focus on expressive landscapes going forward. This focus included writing extensively on landscape photography as an art form, which quickly snowballed into a whirlwind schedule of speaking engagements and interviews, a broad international audience, licensing deals, and immense demand for my workshops. Eventually, Canon began reaching out to offer increasingly interesting opportunities, all of which I accepted with enthusiasm. I had always been a Canon shooter and an educator, so the connection was a natural, good fit for me, and I was extremely thrilled and honored when it all culminated in the invitation to become a Canon Explorer of Light.”
📸 #Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens: EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Ciao, Nihon.