this first picture of chip hooper's is perhaps one of my favorites. it differs from his usual style of water and rocks, and sort of surpasses that and reaches the stars. also, i think getting this many shooting stars confirms my later mentioned theory of either luck or photoshop. it is also kind of funny because, despite of the whole: going beyond his comfort zone of water and rocks, he still leaves in the tiniest bit of water.
this is Chip Hooper, a photographer whose book i found in the library. he was born in 1962 in Miami, Florida, and was not very inspired until, in his 7Th grade art class, he was first introduced to a darkroom. perhaps the single photographer who inspired him the most was Ansel Adams. Chip Hooper's goal as a photographer was to experience the world he hadn't seen, and convey strong emotions through his images, just like Ansel Adams' picture: Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico did for him.what he takes and took pictures of most is water, he felt sort of connected to water. He started out photographing Lake Michigan after his passion for photography was unveiled, and then at 26, he moved to carmel county, California, which is where he now gets many of his ocean shots. his goal was to surpass all the photographers before him in image quality.
Chip Hooper photagraphs water, usually during a storm by some rocks. his most famous book, California's Pacific, was taken around where he lives, much of it is stormy waves crashing on rocks, however this first one is a bit differrent than his usual style. he also photographs a lot of mist, it creates a cool mysterious effect. He photographs water because he finds a mysterious connection with it, and it is now his goal to photograph every ocean in the world and connect them, because, in actuality, they are connected and flow into one another. Chip Hooper wants to show that, in a way that is sort of mysterious. I think his work is pretty good, i like how it is so mysterious and misty ( i love mysterious misty stuff). the reason i do not like his work is because it is all of water and rocks, and only a few like this first one have something more, i also dont really like his sunset photographs because they are sort of bland, every one is kind of the exact same thing, a sunset over water. Chip Hooper's work is very dark and mysterious and i like that, i also like how a lot of his shots are sort of stormy and i wonder how he got onto that obscure rock when i look at some of his photos. while dark, his pictures often seem gloomy, and i think some plants and animals would make it better. i also wonder how all of his photos don't have a single boat, or little puddle of oil, or random seaweed as much of central california's pacific ocean tends to have. either he is one wicked photoshopper or he is just #^@$ lucky. aside from the seaweed. i like the seaweed.
i like this picture because of the misty shroud covering the water. you can only see a little bit, and it looks like the mist is eating the rocks, i also like how the dark shore of evil is combatting with the mist over who eats the rocks. as well as that little random rock thing in the corner that is just like, "hey man, dont let me bother you man, im just here man".
i like this one because it looks sort of like a shipwreck and i keep expecting shark fins to pop up, it fits in with his style of misty gloomy rocks and water. just next time go easy on the mist.
this is another of my favorites because, while being in the whole theme of misty gloomy rocks and water (MGRW), it actually went easy on the mist. it is also in very sharp focus and has extraordinary detail, it makes me wonder how big that rock is. i also like how at the bottom it looks like a maelstrom is about to just eat everything.
MGRW MGRW MGRW!!!! do i need to scream it? i just did. it once again shows no life or civilization, yet somehow, that random rock, not only shows up in almost every picture of his, but it always looks like a civil war ironsides warship, see the resemblence? it even looks like it has a wake this time. my favorite part of this picture is, i'd have to say, how still and calm the water is in contrast to his usually stormy pictures. but that ironsides warship just gives the gloom right back to it. it's like: " oh yay, happy, the storm is finally over and its not misty and the water is calm and... oh god... here comes that ship again, it aint over yet..."
