Rick Eyre

Artist Bio

Rick Eyre began photographing in High School, shooting homes for the real estate section of the local newspaper, at 15 years of age. Moving on through wedding photography and finally advertising, first as an assistant photographer for a range of diverse clients, from Caterpillar Tractor in Peoria Illinois to Mercedes Benz in Garmisch Germany, to his own business shooting corporate Annual Reports and print advertising.

 

Rick is now a Northern Wisconsin based photographer specializing in unique, expressive landscapes and scenic images. His prints feature vivid colors and artistic compositions that create captivating visions of the world.

Using the latest in digital photographic equipment he is able to transfer these visions to large prints with stunning clarity and color. Printing is done on the highest quality fine art papers creating beautiful high quality Giclee prints. Gallery display pieces are individually custom matted and framed. His work is available through as prints, matted, or matted and framed at his web site, RickEyrePhoto.com and licensing is done through PhotoShelter.com Rick also maintains a fun blog to share the experiences of photographing these places, blog.RickEyrePhoto.com, and a newsletter to keep interested parties up to date.

Rick has spent years exploring and photographing many diverse landscapes though-out the United States and around the globe.

Artist's Statement

When William Henry Fox Talbot patented an early photographic process he called it a “calotype”, Greek for beautiful impression.  Photographs create a record of  my visions, and make my camera as powerful as a paintbrush, pen, or keyboard. With my photography I hope to expand the viewers notion of what is beautiful. From scenic vistas of Europe to a porcupine eating berries in Wisconsin.

The Capture.  It’s the new vernacular for the creation of an image.  It’s really the capturing of a moment. The right components properly positioned within the frame, the right facial expression, wing position, the timing of a crashing wave, the color and intensity of the light. It’s that critical fraction of a second that my finger hits the shutter and all these elements come together. Deciding when to press the shutter is what gives the entire photograph meaning and is my most important choice.
 

I try to become invisible, blending in as scenes around me unfold naturally, yet still being prepared for what I hope will happen.  Often it takes hours or even days. Requiring excruciating patience, at other times it is almost an electrical reaction that bypasses all thought and goes straight to instinct.  It’s my biggest challenge, because these moments are so often fleeting. One second later that moment no longer exists, and can never be recreated. Conversely, time exposures allow me to capture movement within the frame, the laundry on a Santorini balcony flutters and we feel the ocean breeze. The water of the Peggys Cove lighthouse blurs and we feel the flow of the waves.  The look and feel of the photograph can be profoundly changed by how long the shutter is open.
 

My compositions represent the structural choices I make within the frame. Attempting to lead the viewers eye around the frame, it often comes down to mathematics, geometric shapes and their placements within the frame. The balance of these elements make up my compositions. I, like all photographers, was taught the “rule of thirds”, and told it allows an easy flow from foreground to background and creates balance.  I feel absolutely no obligation to this or any other “rule”.  When the composition is right, I shoot. 

My  photographs attempt to give visual proof that the world  is grander than we imagine, and there can be beauty, often overlooked, in nearly everything.