Black & White images from Alma Dance Company performance "Womb Creatures" of May 5th and 6th, 2023.
Heather Robles, is the founder and Artistic Executive Director of the Alma Dance Company. Heather choreographed and performed in the piece. The five other dancers who performed were Natalia Munoz, Cecilia Mitchell, Roberta Samet Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens and Mireicy Aquino. The series includes images of every dancer. See People page 5.
This series won Honorable Mention in Monovisions Black and White Photography Awards 2023, People Category and Honorable Mention in International Photography Awards 2023, Event-Other Category.
Heather Robles, is the founder and Artistic Executive Director of the Alma Dance Company. Heather choreographed and performed in the piece. The five other dancers who performed were Natalia Munoz, Cecilia Mitchell, Roberta Samet Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens and Mireicy Aquino. The series includes images of every dancer. See People page 5.
This series won Honorable Mention in Monovisions Black and White Photography Awards 2023, People Category and Honorable Mention in International Photography Awards 2023, Event-Other Category.
Photographic Essay: Nature's Revenge, A Clarion Call, Honorable Mention International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective 2023; Conservation Category (essay can be seen at bottom on Black & White page 8)
Vessels of Life, 2022; Monochrome Photography Awards 2022 Honorable Mention, Amateur Landscape Category.
2023 Monovisions Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Landscapes Category.
Edge of the Earth, 2022; Monovisions Photography Awards 2023, Honorable Mention, Landscapes Category.
Vestrahorn Time Tunnels, 2022; International Color Awards 2023, Honorable Mention, Amateur Nature Category
ARTIST STATEMENT
I currently reside in Brooklyn, New York. My preferred photographic medium is black and white. I find the creative process of visualizing, making a photograph and printing in greyscale particularly exhilarating. I depend on the existing light in any scene.
My portraiture of musicians is motivated by my love for jazz and classical music and my deep respect and admiration for the performers. My journalistic portraits are motivated by my support to specific social causes. My landscape art is motivated by my travels to four of the seven continents, where I have witnessed some of the most beautiful natural scenery our planet has to offer.
My portraits are motivated by my love of dance, jazz and classical music and my deep respect and admiration for the performers. The techniques of my portraiture are inspired by the musicians’ intimacy with their music and instrument and the dancers’ ability to fuse their hearts, minds and movements to convey their message. I emphasize the details of their faces and bodies to transmit the emotional intensity during a performance. Sometimes I utilize motion blur to achieve the same result.
My landscapes are motivated by the creativity and beauty of nature. Natural lighting, clouds and water moving at different speeds, contrasted with static scenery, create dramatic landscape images. By manipulating a scene with longer exposures, I seek to enhance tonal variations and complex textures, transforming an interesting image into an unusually unique and unworldly piece of art.
My intent is for the viewer to travel into the photographic scene and absorb the emotions, energy and serenity the landscape or the person emits.
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The black and white photograph at the top, Vessels of Life, was created during my trip to Iceland in September of 2022. Black & White Pages 7 and 8 have that and 15 other photographs created during a plane ride over Vatnajökull National Park and the Landmannalauger in the highlands of Iceland. Black and White Page 4 has 6 have more photographs from the trip, including two aurora photographs.
The color landscape above, created during an extremely active northern lights night is one of three photographs from that night at the beautiful Vestrahorn mountain. They can be viewed on Landscapes page 5. .
The slide show above includes award-winning images that have won thirty-eight international awards plus four images that were purchased by the Fox TV Series, Monarch. The TV show premiered September 11, 2022.
International Recognition and Photography Awards
2023 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event-Other (Series)
Womb Creatures (Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company)
2023 International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective
Honorable Mention: Photographic Essay
Nature's Revenge, A Clarion Call; Conservation Category
2023 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Edge of the Earth, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, Abstract Art Category
Glacial Abstract Art, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
Dance Performance: Womb Creatures
2023 International Color Awards
Honorable Mention Amateur Nature Category
Vestrahorn Time Tunnels, 2022
2022 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Tentacles, 2022
2021 Photographs Purchased by Monarch XOF Producer, TV Series on Fox Broadcasting (The first two images appeared on the trailer and in one episode.)
Alien Invasion, 2016
Swing’n With the Bass, 2012
Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser, 2012
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2021 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018)
Honorable Mention: Event, Social Cause Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Special Smartphone Photography Category
Blackbird Over the Bay, 2020
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape Category
Storm Over Gullfoss, 2018
2021 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
After Midnight Icelandic Serenity, 2016
2021 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Photojournalism Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Nature and Wildlife Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 International Photography Awards
3rd Place: Event (Series), Social Cause Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in Brooklyn, NY; 2020
Honorable Mention: People, Portrait Category
Hope and Despair, 2020
2020 International Photography OneShot Awards
Honorable Mention: Movement, Nature
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2020 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Costa Brava Art, 2019
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes
Living Atop the World, 2019
2020 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Honorable Mention: Nature, Landscapes Category
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
Honorable Mention: Street Photography, Special
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
2020 ND Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature (Series), Other Category
Unworldly Iceland, 2016 and 2018
Honorable Mention: Nature, Seascapes/Waterscapes Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Black and White Spider Awards
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Hope and Despair, 2020
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Difficult Day, 2020
Honorable Mention: Portrait
Sax on Juneteenth (Michael Jorden), 2020
2020 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Nature Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Sunrise on Fire, 2015
2019 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape (Series) Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Jazz Bass, 2019
2019 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
Alpenglow in the Dolomites at Sunrise, 2015
2019 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Approaching Paradise, 2013
2019 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Icelandic Sculpture, 2018
Honorable Mention: Amateur Portrait Category
Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
2013 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Peoples Choice First Prize
Approaching Paradise, 2013
***I encourage all of those interested to leave comments/posts on my blog page.
My portraiture of musicians is motivated by my love for jazz and classical music and my deep respect and admiration for the performers. My journalistic portraits are motivated by my support to specific social causes. My landscape art is motivated by my travels to four of the seven continents, where I have witnessed some of the most beautiful natural scenery our planet has to offer.
My portraits are motivated by my love of dance, jazz and classical music and my deep respect and admiration for the performers. The techniques of my portraiture are inspired by the musicians’ intimacy with their music and instrument and the dancers’ ability to fuse their hearts, minds and movements to convey their message. I emphasize the details of their faces and bodies to transmit the emotional intensity during a performance. Sometimes I utilize motion blur to achieve the same result.
My landscapes are motivated by the creativity and beauty of nature. Natural lighting, clouds and water moving at different speeds, contrasted with static scenery, create dramatic landscape images. By manipulating a scene with longer exposures, I seek to enhance tonal variations and complex textures, transforming an interesting image into an unusually unique and unworldly piece of art.
My intent is for the viewer to travel into the photographic scene and absorb the emotions, energy and serenity the landscape or the person emits.
*. *. *. *. *. *. *. * *. *
The black and white photograph at the top, Vessels of Life, was created during my trip to Iceland in September of 2022. Black & White Pages 7 and 8 have that and 15 other photographs created during a plane ride over Vatnajökull National Park and the Landmannalauger in the highlands of Iceland. Black and White Page 4 has 6 have more photographs from the trip, including two aurora photographs.
The color landscape above, created during an extremely active northern lights night is one of three photographs from that night at the beautiful Vestrahorn mountain. They can be viewed on Landscapes page 5. .
The slide show above includes award-winning images that have won thirty-eight international awards plus four images that were purchased by the Fox TV Series, Monarch. The TV show premiered September 11, 2022.
International Recognition and Photography Awards
2023 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event-Other (Series)
Womb Creatures (Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company)
2023 International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective
Honorable Mention: Photographic Essay
Nature's Revenge, A Clarion Call; Conservation Category
2023 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
Edge of the Earth, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, Abstract Art Category
Glacial Abstract Art, 2022
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
Dance Performance: Womb Creatures
2023 International Color Awards
Honorable Mention Amateur Nature Category
Vestrahorn Time Tunnels, 2022
2022 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Vessels of Life, 2022
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Tentacles, 2022
2021 Photographs Purchased by Monarch XOF Producer, TV Series on Fox Broadcasting (The first two images appeared on the trailer and in one episode.)
Alien Invasion, 2016
Swing’n With the Bass, 2012
Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser, 2012
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2021 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018)
Honorable Mention: Event, Social Cause Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Special Smartphone Photography Category
Blackbird Over the Bay, 2020
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape Category
Storm Over Gullfoss, 2018
2021 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
After Midnight Icelandic Serenity, 2016
2021 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Single, Photojournalism Category
Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Nature and Wildlife Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 International Photography Awards
3rd Place: Event (Series), Social Cause Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in Brooklyn, NY; 2020
Honorable Mention: People, Portrait Category
Hope and Despair, 2020
2020 International Photography OneShot Awards
Honorable Mention: Movement, Nature
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2020 Monovisions Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Costa Brava Art, 2019
Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes
Living Atop the World, 2019
2020 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Honorable Mention: Nature, Landscapes Category
Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
Honorable Mention: Street Photography, Special
7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
2020 ND Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature (Series), Other Category
Unworldly Iceland, 2016 and 2018
Honorable Mention: Nature, Seascapes/Waterscapes Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Black and White Spider Awards
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Hope and Despair, 2020
Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
Difficult Day, 2020
Honorable Mention: Portrait
Sax on Juneteenth (Michael Jorden), 2020
2020 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Nature Category
Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Sunrise on Fire, 2015
2019 International Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape (Series) Category
Black Beach Art, 2018
Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
Jazz Bass, 2019
2019 Epson International Pano Awards
Bronze Award
Alpenglow in the Dolomites at Sunrise, 2015
2019 Chromatic Awards
Honorable Mention: Nature Category
Approaching Paradise, 2013
2019 Monochrome Photography Awards
Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
Icelandic Sculpture, 2018
Honorable Mention: Amateur Portrait Category
Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
2013 Prix De La Photographie Paris
Peoples Choice First Prize
Approaching Paradise, 2013
***I encourage all of those interested to leave comments/posts on my blog page.