Greg Giesy, Colors of Nature

November 1 through December 31.
Artist reception on Saturday November 1 from 1-5 pm.
Closing reception will occur on Saturday December 20 from 1-5 pm.

The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B.
Eugene, OR 97405
(541) 729-3572

Hours will be from 1-5 on week days, call to make special viewing arrangements.
email: picmac1945@gmail.com
web: https://www.waltobrien.net/the…

“As people go through life on a daily basis, the colors of nature around them are for the most part generalized. The sky is blue, the tree is green, and the squirrel is brown. At rare times during the year people may notice the bright red of a rose in spring or the yellow, orange, and red of leaves in fall.

Painters expand that pallet of nature’s colors by mixing their paints to find the shades of that red rose, lighten and darkening the blue of the sky, or noting that there are several shades of yellow, orange, and red in those fall leaves. Looking closer they may note some green in the yellow and some brown in the orange of those leaves. But even most painters don’t see like a camera’s photographic vision picking up multitudes of tones, shades, and colors.

Photographers take what the camera records and turn that into what the photographer sees. That vision may be idealized or as true to human vision as the photographer can make it. The choice is the photographers’ to decide how to show the colors of nature.”

As an award-winning nature photographer Greg has a keen interest in the state of not only our wild places but our urban environment – the world outside our door. His years of experience have honed his eye to focus on and appreciate the details present in nature. He believes that the average person should spend more time to notice and focus on where we live. People need to connect, appreciate, and protect the world around them.

Greg has been a serious photographer for over fifty years. He has ranged in styles from fine art black and white photography to architectural photography, to color commercial product macro photography, to event photography, and onto nature photography which includes wide-angle, macro, and telephoto in both color and black & white photos of plant, flower, landscapes, bird, and other wildlife.

His photography is enhanced by his background in architecture, jewelry, and landscape design and construction. To help him produce the maximum detail in his digital photos he now uses the Canon R5 Mark II mirrorless camera with better focus tracking, exceptional clarity, stabilization, and extreme telephoto lenses as shown in the photographs that are on display.

To see more of his photography, go to his website www.greggiesyphotography.com or he can be reached at his email address ggsb@continet.com.

He also has photos with other members’ of PhotoZone on their website www.photozonegallery.com under Online Gallery and Member Projects.