OCEAN STORMS PHOTOGRAPHY: An Adventure photo journey [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

This book is a tribute to the wildness of the ocean and its storms, full of life, sea birds, and people, sailing, working, living and dying there. The huge waves of the South Atlantic Ocean in the Argentine Sea over 30 feet high smash on tiny boats fishing the area, studying the resources or for military goals. A portrait with more than 200 photos and select phrases that show the beauty, wildness, bravery and hardness of a fierce but magnificent sea, with beautiful animals, postcard landscapes and a climate only for a few.Photography is still a very ductile and practical way of expression, creation, and documentation. The communication a photographer can get with the observer is mostly direct, clear, and convincing, without leaving any doubts about what you want to show or document. It is the miracle of representing in a bidimensional way, not only the physical realities but also the subjective situations. It is a miracle that the communication captured by the photograph has quality and produces an impact on the viewer. That is why photography is Art and science. In this book, Mark Royo Celano gives us the forcefulness of image and at the same time poetry. His shots not only register a moment, a situation but also a sensation or many sensations. To communicate the sensation of immensity, coldness, wind, loneliness, and helplessness is not easy. However, Mark makes us feel those sensations in a palpable way, image by image. It is not an ideal situation to produce those images when you are working in tempestuous and inhospitable climates, risking your health and your physical integrity, dizzy, suffering from seasickness, blows, coldness, completely wet, but to communicate reality. To emphasize even more the dramatic images, Mark used white and black. It was not easy for him, a photographer-scientist used to register the color in its maximum reality as a sine qua noncondition for the results he was looking for. But in this current color and digital world, using black and white has a clear justification and reason. First of all, you have to recognize that with dark and cloudy skies, there is almost no real color of things. You almost see everything in a monochromatic way. Secondly, white and black help the viewer's concentration, and mainly emphasize the drama of the images. Thalassa, the Greek goddess of the Mediterranean Sea and the rest of the seas shows here her most irascible and unpredictable character as the powerful woman that she is and knows she is because there is not such a reality as the omnipotence of the sea that the one you can endure during a storm. The sea gives us full life, but it also has the power of taking it away from us. These pictures show that and make us aware of it and feel respect for the seamen's tough and risky task, lost in that immensity, depending on the elements and trying to work and return home safely. However, sometimes this is not always the case. The impossible waves, the unstoppable wind that you feel, and then the shy sky opening are represented in these images with brutal realism. In many of these pictures, it seems that only the birds share the vision of those sublime and unrepeatable moments, special moments that the photographer could capture masterly. Hour by hour and day by day of difficult navigation and hard work, with poetry and reality Mark has provided us with the vision of the permanent challenge that represents life at sea. For that reason, I respect and acknowledge him, from photographer to photographer. Because of this, I recommend all of you readers this book that will let you travel with Mark Royo Celano over the crest of the waves, taste the salty water, and contemplate images that you could hardly see and live. Rogelio N. Rozas (Honorary E.FIAP) Honorary President of CACIEIFE (Cámara Argentina de Comercio e Importación de Equipos de Imagen, Fotografía y Electrónica). Read more