This arresting image of Lough Tay in Wicklow was captured at five in the morning last summer by fine-art landscape photographer Peter Gordon. “I visited it 30-40 times before I got the right picture and that was the best light,” he says.
He and his award-winning father, Ed Gordon, must be one of the few father/son professional photographic partnerships in the country and they are collaborating on their third joint exhibition called ExploreLight Nature in the Brightlife Gallery, Greystones, opening on May 26th. Images of Wicklow at various times of the year are included in the exhibition, along with work done on their many travels abroad together to places such as Colorado and Arizona, “capturing both grand and intimate details free from man’s presence”. Peter Gordon has been working for the past five years on a book about Wicklow landscapes, a county about which he is passionate. “Though I live in Dublin, my heart is in Wicklow and I’m there at least two or three times a week.” He also gives workshops on photography, and what he loves about the landscape is the way light defines it and its contours. His tools are a Nikon F5 and a Pentax 67. www.explorelight.com
