After a year in the making, my new stock photography website is up and running, allowing creatives to search for images from my personal collections of travel, landscape, portrait, and adventure stock imagery, and create lightboxes of potential images for their layouts and campaigns. Please take a look! http://matthewturleystock.com
My father is an ophthalmologist, so naturally my childhood was spent watching cataract surgery videos with dad (accounting for probably half of the movies I had ever seen before I turned 20). I guess the basic idea was that there’s something to be learned by watching a huge, unblinking eyeball on the screen get poked around [...]
Norway doesn’t have a lot of flat terrain, so people have to travel for hundreds or even thousands of miles to visit the rare exception and have a picnic, even if that spot is as small and exposed as Preikestolen, located in Lysefjorden (near Stavanger). With sheer 2,000′ drops to the fjord on three sides you [...]
Went for a ski down to the fjord on New Years Eve with my Nordic muse outside her home on the island of Jeløy. It was a refreshing change in pace from the sort of skiing I’ve become accustomed to here in Utah, where performance, adrenaline, and technology reign supreme over wooden skis, wool sweaters, [...]
These photographers called themselves the Nikonians in reference to their collective choice of camera brand. Although my Graflex 4×5 became a brief conversation piece, their considerable brand loyalty was undeterred. Thoroughly courteous, they always offered to step out of my shots – at least until I reassured them that they weren’t interfering. ’Are you sure?’ [...]
Cabins in Norway are the real deal. They dot the landscape like tiny shrines to Thoreauvian minimalism – usually without running water, indoor plumbing, electricity, or even road access – and usually seem as relaxed and natural in the landscape as a herd of deer. Nothing like the faux-timber monstrosities that awkwardly overpower our landscapes in the [...]
By sheer coincidence I managed to experience both of 2009′s solstices in Norway. Midday sun over Oslofjord Midnight sun from a ferry in the Lofoten Islands: Homage to Caspar David Friedrich: