America's national parks are beautiful. You have to take your time and be a bit lucky with the weather. I was too short in Zion, but everything else was along for the ride: a golden evening sun with a beautiful cloud cover. On the far right of the photo, next to the dark green trees, two cars are driving. It gives you a bit of an impression of the size of this mountain massif.
The compositions in the work of Gerard Oonk are highly stylized. The main subject of the photographs is immediately recognizable. "I don't want to distract the viewer and that requires making choices and leaving out a lot". The emphasis in the photographs is on beauty and optimism. Even our transience.. Read more…