Sometimes the perspective, from which one is looking at the world can change. It happened to photographer Douglas I. Busch, currently living in Malibu, California, who photographed for 35 years with large format cameras (14” x 17” to 40” x 60”). His transition went from SuperLarge™ format to the new digital medium.

However, it  is not the technique, which encourages us to dream. It is the amalgamation of color, form and subject, the fluid-misty coloration in Busch’s Silent Waves. His series of frail images is breaking the traditions and codices of contemporary stylish photography by moving the whole subject one step closer to a painterly attitude. Not that the artist was looking for that attitude. It came, as it sometimes happens, while he was standing on the beach watching the waves roll in. The images were exposing themselves, in a constantly changing and wispy light. They came by day and night. Images fixed in the memory of the camera.

And their beauty! This always-changing beauty, kept in the soft surface of a paper, entices us to touch them the moment we see them.

Photography is able to break small pieces out of the visible reality and then combine them in a different way. That is probably this medium’s greatest strength. Douglas I. Busch shows us how effortless and simple recording the world around us can be.