JOURNAL

April 21, 2022
Matt Fischer

‘Highland Solitude’: Alone in the Icelandic Wilderness

In early fall of 2021, I embarked on a journey alone and on foot through a remote section of the Icelandic Highlands. I traversed approximately 130 miles over seven days, encountering no other people for much of the walk. I crossed roaring, waist-deep glacial rivers, traversed trail-less summits via knife-edge ridges, and endured driving wind

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October 13, 2020
Matt Fischer

How ‘Time-Blending’ Can Enhance Drama in Your Landscape Photography

In my last post, I wrote in depth about my emotional connection to the subjects that I photograph and my artistic process in creating imagery.  As I said before, to me photography is much more than capturing a single moment in time.  I want to portray the sensory experiences that I have when I am

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July 2, 2020
Matt Fischer

Why Do I Do Landscape Photography? and Should We Be Defining the Artistic Process?

Why do I do landscape photography?  I have been trying to conceptualize an answer to this question as I delve deeper into my self-expression through creating imagery.  Over the past year, I have become a student of the photography art form, soaking up any and all knowledge possible from a thriving and massive community.  I

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April 12, 2020
Matt Fischer

‘A Water World’ – Our Oceans and Climate Change

Water is the heartbeat of our world.  As a planet whose surface and footprint is dominated by water, the juxtaposition of humanity’s dependence and it’s understanding of this scientific fact is a fascinating contemplation.  It may be the greatest example of what I see as humanity’s greatest weakness: myopia. Earth’s oceans are its largest storage

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February 2, 2020
Matt Fischer

‘Untamed’: Walking the Skye Trail in Northwest Scotland

In late August, I spent nine days in the western highlands of Scotland, the wilder, greener north of the United Kingdom.  Following a route known as the ‘Skye Trail,’ I walked from the northern most point on the Isle of Skye through stunning vistas, ending at the coastal town of Broadford, close to the Skye

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