Name: Trey Ratcliff
Date of birth: July 7th, 1971
Personal Background
Trey Ratcliff grew up in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Jesuit College Prep Dallas. He attended the Southern Methodist University for computer mathematics and science. He obtained his degree in 1995, with that, he began to experiment with landscape photography. Ratcliff was born American. He was born with a strange disorder that blinded one of his eyes. He considers this disorder a 'gift'. His work has been premiered on hundreds of networks/channels. He also contested on the show survivor. He was one of the finalists but unfortunately couldn't get past the last round.
Style
Trey's style is very similar to most artists. He is very talented when it comes to capturing light and color. His area is more focussed on landscapes. The pictures are very bright and colorful, sometimes making a POI for the eyes whether that be a certain object, formation, field, building, etc. They can be really motivating and inspiring to look at. Creates a sense of beauty in the world. I usually look at his pictures more as a painting than a real picture. His city photography is reminiscent to the 'Starry Night' painting by Vincent van Gogh.
Philosophy
The major ideas of his work are to relax and build confidence in people. As he said in his portfolio was "I want to help spread consciousness and mindfulness to the world. It’s hard to teach billions to meditate, but you can help teach them photography and creativity. I believe when people are being creative they are being fully present and conscious, and that’s the best thing we all can do for the world."
Influences
I'd only known a bit about Ratcliff before researching him. I knew he was a landscape photographer and I knew he aspired to be famous. I'd seen some of his work and thought of how amazing it'd be to go to those places he's been like France or Russia, and capture amazing landscapes. I knew it'd prob be awhile before I start traveling around the world, so I made use to the environment I'm surrounded by. Wherever I'd go, I'd try to capture a picture like he did. His photos captured a whimsical type feel I attempted to capture. The color in his photos was incredibly saturated, and being me, I wanted to create that same affect since I love bright, flashy photos.
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Date of birth: July 7th, 1971
Personal Background
Trey Ratcliff grew up in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Jesuit College Prep Dallas. He attended the Southern Methodist University for computer mathematics and science. He obtained his degree in 1995, with that, he began to experiment with landscape photography. Ratcliff was born American. He was born with a strange disorder that blinded one of his eyes. He considers this disorder a 'gift'. His work has been premiered on hundreds of networks/channels. He also contested on the show survivor. He was one of the finalists but unfortunately couldn't get past the last round.
Style
Trey's style is very similar to most artists. He is very talented when it comes to capturing light and color. His area is more focussed on landscapes. The pictures are very bright and colorful, sometimes making a POI for the eyes whether that be a certain object, formation, field, building, etc. They can be really motivating and inspiring to look at. Creates a sense of beauty in the world. I usually look at his pictures more as a painting than a real picture. His city photography is reminiscent to the 'Starry Night' painting by Vincent van Gogh.
Philosophy
The major ideas of his work are to relax and build confidence in people. As he said in his portfolio was "I want to help spread consciousness and mindfulness to the world. It’s hard to teach billions to meditate, but you can help teach them photography and creativity. I believe when people are being creative they are being fully present and conscious, and that’s the best thing we all can do for the world."
Influences
I'd only known a bit about Ratcliff before researching him. I knew he was a landscape photographer and I knew he aspired to be famous. I'd seen some of his work and thought of how amazing it'd be to go to those places he's been like France or Russia, and capture amazing landscapes. I knew it'd prob be awhile before I start traveling around the world, so I made use to the environment I'm surrounded by. Wherever I'd go, I'd try to capture a picture like he did. His photos captured a whimsical type feel I attempted to capture. The color in his photos was incredibly saturated, and being me, I wanted to create that same affect since I love bright, flashy photos.
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Compare and Contrast
'This picture reminds me a lot of his mountain picture he took, mostly because the vibrance and contrast fits that theme of majestic like lands. The water adds a whole new layer of gorgeousness to it, at least in my eyes. I think it makes it more like a painting since you can sit there and analyze the picture for as long as you want and still feel a little tingle of satisfaction. This was taken along the coastline of Miami a little close to night, somewhere around before sundown. I am still really satisfied with this picture as it holds a lot of weight to my idol as well as career.'
'Quite personally this has to be one of my favorite images just because of the low saturation/hue of it and relaxing tempo it holds. At first I hesitated to take this photo do to the look of it, I thought the house would mess with the feel of the picture, but I honestly think it added to it. I like to see it as a new day, even though this was taken same time as my first Miami photo. It reminds me of coming out of my house for a morning jog to be greeted by the breaking dawn of a new day. Those moments always hold a deep seeded nostalgia to me and taking these pictures always bring back memories.'
'This one still remains a staple of my most iconic pictures. I took this one in South Dakota. We were traveling through a forrest by ATV and foot and I just so happened to catch this rock near a perfectly placed and formed stream. I found it funny after taking the picture and releasing the stream was never originally there, the heavy rain we were experiencing produced it. I didn't touch this photo with any sort of editing software. I was worried it'd mess up the vibe it gave off to me, which is supposed to be nature's editing, y'know? Untouched and unaltered, beautiful photograph was my ideology.'
Compare and Contrast
I like to almost think my 3 images represent 3 parts of this world. You've got your city represented as the house on the 2nd image, you've got your beach/oceanic view point represented in the 1st image, and lastly you've got your forestry represented as the rock along side trees and a river. In my eyes, almost every image is representative of the world we've built and previously here before us. I like to think of landscape photography as almost a timeline. You could take a gorgeous photo of a mountain or you could take a soaring, beautiful photo of a city populated with other people. It's modern compared to natural or otherwise old world. It's a blend of times.
I like to almost think my 3 images represent 3 parts of this world. You've got your city represented as the house on the 2nd image, you've got your beach/oceanic view point represented in the 1st image, and lastly you've got your forestry represented as the rock along side trees and a river. In my eyes, almost every image is representative of the world we've built and previously here before us. I like to think of landscape photography as almost a timeline. You could take a gorgeous photo of a mountain or you could take a soaring, beautiful photo of a city populated with other people. It's modern compared to natural or otherwise old world. It's a blend of times.