steve

landscape photographer 📸 | weather nerd ⛈️ | golf 🏌🏻‍♂️| hockey 🏒 | penguins 🐧

[steve @vastdepth]

https://t.co/Ydf74sTMTs

[Reuben Wu @Reuben_Wu]

Nobody expects a director to do it all.
So why did I expect it of myself as an artist?
I thought I had to make every part of the work myself, and stay inside my medium while I did it.

For years I've done everything myself. Shooting, lighting, retouching, editing video, making music. That's how i owned my visual language: slowly, with my own hands.

When you watch Dune, you feel one person's vision. Denis Villeneuve didn't light every frame or score every scene. He had the vision but trusted masters of their craft to take it further than he could alone.

Right now I'm directing my most ambitious and challenging personal project yet. I can't share it until it's announced. But it's changed how I think about authorship.

When you're buried in the technical problems of every step, the vision can shrink to fit the workaround. Working with people who know the technical side better than I do hasn't diluted the work. It's made the vision bigger, beyond where my own photo-based practice could ever go.

I love the making. I always will.

But the real test of a creative vision isn't whether you can execute every part of it. It's whether it's strong enough to survive being handed to someone else.

Each project teaches me a little more about letting go.

Music: Boards of Canada

[steve @vastdepth]

@ReedTimmerUSA Can’t wait to watch when it’s released, congrats Reed, the best to ever do it 🫡

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

NEVER STOP CHASING, the movie, is up for an Oscar nomination in the documentary category!

The digital release on Apple TV is planned for November 14 which is right around the corner.

Thank you for your support of our movie

[steve @vastdepth]

@StewarrMark All the cool shit we do out there man 🫡

[steve @vastdepth]

Do Epic Shit ….. ✅

[Adam Weitsman @AdamWeitsman]

Do Epic Shit ….. ✅

[TJ Thorne @tjthorne_photo]

Half Dome under moonlight.
Yosemite National Park
November 11, 2024
8:56pm

[steve @vastdepth]

@tjthorne_photo @enixsta Very nice TJ

[steve @vastdepth]

@brynnalise_sc Amazing animals 😍

[ClickCreate.io @clickcreateio]

Gm 🤍

Artists we love creating art we love.

A thread 🧵

while there is life there is hope - @Christine_Clue

[ClickCreate.io @clickcreateio]

Cosmic Light - @vastdepth

[steve @vastdepth]

@clickcreateio Thanks for sharing ✌🏼

[steve @vastdepth]

@randymilanovic Thanks Randy

[steve @vastdepth]

As someone that lives in an arid flat landscape, I am basically forced to use the landscape as a canvas to create my interpretation of what I see.

Chase the conditions, capture the moment, create the emotion 🫡

[Sean Mundy @seanmundyphoto]

How good of a photographer are you if you need a beautiful subject in front of you to create good art?

[steve @vastdepth]

@Kristin_Mae Appreciate that Kristin 👍🏼

[steve @vastdepth]

@Warcraft Smoothest launch ever as well 👌🏼

[steve @vastdepth]

@clickcreateio Cosmic Light

[steve @vastdepth]

One of favourite recent photos I’ve taken. Back in January this year.

The dead tree in the middle, the Milky Way on the left, Aurora with beams on the right and the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds sitting above the tree.

[steve @vastdepth]

@Greekdx I’m horde but PvP

[steve @vastdepth]

@HollanderAdam What faction / ruleset?

[steve @vastdepth]

@MichaelBuda2 Sure is man

[steve @vastdepth]

One of favourite recent photos I’ve taken. Back in January this year.

The dead tree in the middle, the Milky Way on the left, Aurora with beams on the right and the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds sitting above the tree.