Great Outdoors — Photography by Bill Nash: great outdoors, landscape, destinations, washington, Utah, Pahranagat, oregon, Arizona, coast, surf.
If this whole set is a sentence, “Isolation” is spaces between the words. The National Parks are the capital letters, and the rest is just diction, the language and structure of what I see when I travel and what I want to convey back to people who look at my work. Blue skies. Flowing water. The distance between you and the horizon. We move through this incredible world and a lot of us don't even stop to see it.
Pahranagat is on the way to Vegas. I camped there often when I took up astrophotography. There's a breakwater in the middle of the preserve where you can haul a tripod out and get a real great view of the sky. And mauled by mosquitos.
My astrophotography is my weakest body of work. I don't have any frames that I consider worth sharing, and it's the hardest for me to work on.
It's super subjective. The guy chilling in his kayak, man, that's just goals, isn't it? That photo has something for everyone, I think. A good sunset, some time outside, on the water, in a boat, maybe with a beer. Just a moment of peace and quiet to let the brain go slack for a bit. We don't do that anymore. There's so much noise. Phones, traffic, ads. You can't even get gas without someone pummeling you with an advertisement, in audio, with a busted mute button that shows just how everyone feels about that ad. But here's a dude in his kayak, getting none of that. An image like that pulls on you a bit.
Never let them see how the sausage is made, that's the joke, right? The long drives, the bugs, the getting lost, the breakdowns. Some of that winds up on Instagram, which is probably where it belongs.