"Beyond Nature's Realm," Steve Woodruff

Throughout Steve Woodruff's artistic career, he has enjoyed a wide variety of photographic subjects. Over the last five years, he has concentrated on Fine Art landscape and Panoramic Imagery. Along with these changes in subject matter, he has been drawn to a technique pioneered by William Neill, renowned Yosemite photographer and student of Ansel Adams, with whom he spent time in 2016. Moving away from the stark realism of traditional landscape photography, this method of image capture uses slower shutter speeds and intentional camera movement to enter the realm of photographic impressionism and abstraction without compromising the essential subject matter. The resulting images emphasize color, patterns, and light variance to impart a vivid, more “painterly” composition, which serves to challenge the viewers’ perspectives and expands their imaginations.

At present, Woodruff's photographic images use the latest and most advanced Fine Art printing technology available. Both the Chromoluxe HD dye-sublimation on metal and the Lumachrome HD Acrylic processes offer distinctive image brilliance and archival quality that set them apart from other print mediums.