Plants and Animals: Photography by Brandi Maher
Colorado-based photography Brandi Maher takes colorful photos of the plants and animals around her. Brandi’s photographs tend toward a documentary approach, capturing the finest details of both her central subjects, and the surrounding landscape.
I find Brandi’s use of lighting quite interesting in many of her photographs. This seems particularly relevant in the artist’s gallery of tree photographs – in some images of trees in snowy landscape, the artist captures a seemingly skewed white balance that, whether natural or artificial, lends the subjects a ghostly, ethereal glow. The same is true, though subtler, in photographs of birch trees, where the contrast between black knots and white bark become rather striking.
Brandi's photography website, www.brandipixels.com
Lighting still plays a role in Brandi’s images of birds and animals, though with these dynamic subjects the artist’s focus seems to shift to capturing movements, textural details and color. I enjoy the mix of photos in Brandi’s Birds gallery, which features both energetic action shots, and well-composed stills of birds sitting, observing.
