Photographer: Misha de Ridder

Photographing landscapes is difficult. Producing images truly interesting and captivating is definitely not an easy task and in my opinion few photographers can pull it off. Misha de Ridder, who I discovered today via wayneford's posterous has a beautiful series that I found particularly enthralling.

This line from the article sums it up nicely:

‘My work is made from the perspective of someone who lives in a city and wants to know how to relate to wilderness,’ writes de Ridder, ‘to the greatness of nature and in the end to the nature of his own existence and inevitable death.