Man's Influence Over the Landscape by Mark MacKinnon
The degree of good that one gets from the ever present landscape depends on two things.
First, the keenness of one's perception of the beautiful qualities in landscape. Second, the physical qualities of the landscape itself, qualities which depend largely upon the doings of man, as woodsman, farmer, gardener, builder, or controller of the materials and forces of nature.
For the appearance of the land and the objects upon it generally results from the control which man himself exerts over the materials and forces of nature just as truly and as completely as the sculptor controls the appearance of the natural stone which he shapes. There is not one of us who is not responsible in some degree for making or marring the landscape of our world. Whenever this human control over the land and the objects upon it is influenced by desire to make the resulting landscape more enjoyable than it would otherwise be, an element of artistry enters, which often attains the quality of a Fine Art.
Mark MacKinnon works with a Hasselblad digital medium format capture system, and medium format film panoramic cameras and drum scans the image for high quality reproduction. He prints his own work in his Beacon, New York studio in the Hudson Valley. All work is printed on 100% archival fine art papers without optical brighteners, custom framed to archival standards. |
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