My interest in photography started at a very young age when I was given a tiny cartridge film camera. I started photography seriously at art college in 1987, mainly working with 35mm black and white film and printing my own images. I started shooting semi-professionally in 1999 whilst working as a graphic designer from where an interest exploded into a total obsession: I turned full-time professional in 2003. My photographic artworks are in private and corporate collections and my image of Skye (V2ML10) won a Commendation in ‘Take a View’ UK Landscape Photographer of the Year 2008 and my image of NWT Holme Dunes (V4N11) was shortlisted in the 2010 competition.
Artwork clients include many NHS Trusts, Aviva, Best Western Hotels, Nuffield Health, Pizza Express, Holiday Inn, Land Securities, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster and Q Hotels.
I use professional digital equipment often stitched to create super-high resolution single or panoramic images.
My Approach
I intend all my images to be seen at large sizes on walls - they are artworks and, for the most part, the bigger they are printed, the better. I want people to be overwhelmed by my images, just as I'm often overwhelmed when I take them. The images of nature have been very carefully shot to exclude the human intrusions which often appear in typical stock and tourist photography.
My images are not designed to provoke controversy, but to provide harmony in the environments in which they appear. They transmit a powerful, radiant quality and work in homes, healthcare, commercial and leisure environments, relaxing and uplifting people.
The most important qualities of any image appearing in one of my collections are BEAUTY, HAPPINESS and REALITY. Not the beauty or happiness in consumer culture and not the day-to-day reality of Western 'civilisation' but a bright, radiant, peaceful and Happy condition, a condition that can easily be found in the natural world but which seems more and more absent from the human world.
Apart from some instinctive understanding, the main reason I am able to perceive this about the natural world is due to the Blessing and Wisdom of my Spiritual Teacher Adi Da Samraj (www.adidam.org), to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude. This work is dedicated to magnifying His Blessing, which is only benign, only loving and only peaceful.
Last word: I couldn't do what I do without my wife Alison. Someone has to keep me organised and nourished - I'm grateful to her for that and for her invaluable creative and business input.
Richard Osbourne
Artwork clients include many NHS Trusts, Aviva, Best Western Hotels, Nuffield Health, Pizza Express, Holiday Inn, Land Securities, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster and Q Hotels.
I use professional digital equipment often stitched to create super-high resolution single or panoramic images.
My Approach
I intend all my images to be seen at large sizes on walls - they are artworks and, for the most part, the bigger they are printed, the better. I want people to be overwhelmed by my images, just as I'm often overwhelmed when I take them. The images of nature have been very carefully shot to exclude the human intrusions which often appear in typical stock and tourist photography.
My images are not designed to provoke controversy, but to provide harmony in the environments in which they appear. They transmit a powerful, radiant quality and work in homes, healthcare, commercial and leisure environments, relaxing and uplifting people.
The most important qualities of any image appearing in one of my collections are BEAUTY, HAPPINESS and REALITY. Not the beauty or happiness in consumer culture and not the day-to-day reality of Western 'civilisation' but a bright, radiant, peaceful and Happy condition, a condition that can easily be found in the natural world but which seems more and more absent from the human world.
Apart from some instinctive understanding, the main reason I am able to perceive this about the natural world is due to the Blessing and Wisdom of my Spiritual Teacher Adi Da Samraj (www.adidam.org), to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude. This work is dedicated to magnifying His Blessing, which is only benign, only loving and only peaceful.
Last word: I couldn't do what I do without my wife Alison. Someone has to keep me organised and nourished - I'm grateful to her for that and for her invaluable creative and business input.
Richard Osbourne
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