Alone Time

Opera House, Sydney Harbour, Australia – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

Opera House, Sydney Harbour, Australia – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

Canon 5DMk2, 35mm, F11, 1/200th sec, ISO 800, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

The Opera House foreshore in Sydney Harbour is an icon of the world, and photographing it is one of my favourite things. There are photographs everywhere. The people, the places around and the things. The architecture, the streets, the life. Doing just this, I was leaning on a railing overlooking everything when I spotted this girl, just curled up on her own reading. She looked as though she was in another world, as if away from the crowds. In reality she was just the opposite, in a constant stream of strolling tourists. But at times, she looked isolated, and that was what I wanted to depict in this photograph. That in a bustling city like Sydney, you can find peace and solitude.

Opera House, Sydney Harbour, Australia – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Gallery

Street photography can often show you variety when you least expect it. Look for ways to display a scene in the exact opposite of what it is. A normally bust street, completely empty of people and traffic. A tall building made to look small. Its these perspectives that make up your view of the world. They are not wrong, or inaccurate. Everything is accurate if you think about, because what you see is your own interpretation. Photography is just that, and interpretation.