Richard Pike

When the day ends and the night begins a change happens, the character of the day that is allowed to be seen is replaced by another, when illuminated with light this other character is revealed.

The one that should never be seen. The one that should forever remain secret.

The one true character?

We are surround by many different types of landscapes, to show them at their best they to need to be presented differently. Some intimate and simple, some quiet and plain. However, there are some scenes that must be allowed to be displayed on a bigger stage.

This is when a panoramic is at its best.

This collection has one simple purpose to let the flower have centre stage.

Allow it freedom to display itself in all its glory, to show its beauty, its elegance.

To show that it is strong and proud but also to show how fragile and delicate it can be.

Humans have always been inspired by the natural world, the many things that it can achieve.

One of these is to defy gravity, to release themselves from the strong grip of the earth, to rise into the atmosphere.

To have the ability to take flight.

Because a still life is not complicated by any outside distractions to influence, persuade or confuse, an instant bond can be made between the subject and the viewer, allowing two things to happen.

Stories to be told.

Questions to be asked.

Trees and humans are very much alike.

Everyone is unique, everyone has its own character, everyone as something to say, something to show.

To story to tell.

A life to share.

We are probably all guilty at times of taking the landscape around us for granted. It is so easily ignored.

As we pass through it without giving it a second thought, we do not realise how much it changes. Although that scene may have passed into history by capturing that moment in time and creating an image it will allow the landscape to continue to speak to us, to teach us, to help us.

We are probably all guilty at times of taking the landscape around us for granted. It is so easily ignored.

As we pass through it without giving it a second thought, we do not realise how much it changes. Although that scene may have passed into history by capturing that moment in time and creating an image it will allow the landscape to continue to speak to us, to teach us, to help us.

We all at times need to remind ourselves that humans are not the only living things that inhabit this planet.

We share our lives with many varied forms of wildlife and by creating images it gives us the ability to study and appreciate the grace, beauty and mystery that the natural world possesses.

These images also allow an important message to be sent.

Although Humans may be the dominant species there are others that also call earth home.