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So this is the first in what I hope will be a bi-weekly series, sharing featured inspiring photographers and inspiring images I’ve trawled from the web, blogs, Twitter and Flickr.

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It was hard to decide on the opener, but I went with Adam Clutterbuck, whose Flickr stream I’ve long surfed.

The most fascinating aspect of Adam’s photography, is his mastery of the 4th dimension of photography – time – combined with an uncanny ability to create minimalist compositions.

In Adam’s super long-exposures, solid objects all along the English West Coast, both natural and man made, are contrasted beautifully with the sea rendered smooth, often mercurial like from exposure times that must clock in at several minutes.

Simplicity is also a defining mark of Adam’s compositions, there is often no more than a solitary element, a group of rotting groynes or rocky outcrop, isolated against a frame dominated by ethereal milky water.

Often with landscape photography so much forethought and work is required to break down a vista into what to include and exclude from the frame, however, Adam seems to handle this with ease placing rarely more than 1 or 2 objects in any frame.

Adam’s images remind me of the work of Michael Levin who also seems to be able to effortlessly deconstruct reality, simplifying it into opposing textured elements which only render their characteristics after an extended exposure – classic examples of previsualisation.

You can check out more of Adam’s work on Flickr, where he’s known by his handle of g r e e n g a g e – and I thought f29 was odd – or here at his online portfolio.

Enjoy

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Thanks to the excellent design blog Abduzeedo, which posts weekly inspiration — typography, web or print design — for giving me the idea.