David Redmond Travel Photography
Posted by admin | Travel Insurance | Posted on October 8th, 2010
David Redmond is a fascinating photographer. Although he mainly does stock photography for photo libraries as this makes most of his income, his real passion is in still life, and he will often travel to the ends of the Earth just to get a beautiful shot. In that sense alone, David Redmond is a true artist.
He delights in taking photos of anything he sees that is interesting, be that a man made garden, a fruit having dropped from a tree or even (although less frequently) animals going about their natural day.
David Redmond recently took a trip out to India where he says he saw so many things that he just wouldn’t have been able to had he stayed in his native England. Whilst out there he was privy to some absolutely beautiful architecture and nature that he fully took advantage of in his photography, taking his camera everywhere he went.
As other travel photographers have found, even the light is different in far flung places, and can make things that you thought you knew the look of, seem completely and utterly different.
“I took a photo of an apple on a table whilst out in India. I’ve take a million photos of apples and thought I’d pretty much exhausting their visual potential. But the way the sun came in through the window and lit it was very peculiar to India, and I’ve never seen an apple like it, although the fruit itself was nothing special” commented David Redmond.
Although David Redmond’s work is interesting in itself – he has a wonderful eye for composition and lighting; he is one of many photographers these days taking advantage of cheap flights and developing infrastructure to chase their passion all over the world, constantly on the lookout for new scenes, new people and new experiences to document on film.
And for people like David Redmond, this just wouldn’t have been possible even 10 years ago. His income from photography is unfortunately very low, and so these trips aren’t business, they are pure passion. But that’s where good art comes from, and that’s how travelling should be done: with passion, and a thirst for new experiences.