John Shephard Photography Art Show

October 21st 5PM-8PM & October 22nd 2PM- 7PM

Growing up in Washington State, with its abundance of glorious scenery and wild places, John Shephard always harbored a love of the great outdoors, a passion that manifested itself through landscape photography.

Things changed dramatically in 1998 following a chance encounter while Shephard was on a photographic assignment to cover the spring color of tulip fields in the Skagit Valley in Washington State. “I was out very early looking for the dawn lighting,” he recalls, “and there was one other person there already, who turned out to be the celebrated Australian landscape photographer Ken Duncan. It transpired that Ken was undertaking a book project that involved him shooting pictures in all of the 50 states.

Shephard followed Duncan back to Australia and spent another two years there, starting to build up his landscape portfolio and to put together the framework for a career as a professional landscape photographer. As part of that process he went looking for a style that he could call his own, and ultimately he decided to concentrate on a panoramic approach, which he felt was particularly suited to landscape and which hadn’t been over-exploited in the US.

With his career now taking of, sales of fine art limited edition prints are helping to provide the ‘bread and butter’ income for the business, and this is an encouraging sign because it’s allowing Shephard to follow his instincts and to produce work that is close to his heart and which doesn’t have to comply with strictly commercial values.

By Terry Hope from the book, “The World’s Top Photographers: Landscape”