Fine art nature photographer

take a look at these photographs! wow!

Welcome to the website of award-winning California fine art nature photographer Floris van Breugel. Explore his landscape and wildlife image galleries, purchase fine art prints and calendars, read his blog, locate stock photos, sign up for workshops, and more.

BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards!

He had three images receive BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards.

"Life Among Giants" recieved runner-up in 'Animals in their Environment'

"Frozen Paradise" was highly commended in 'Wild Places'

"The Spring Explosion" was highly commended in 'In Praise of Plants'. (note his titles differ from the ones they used in the competition).

You can see the images here: online gallery

The BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards are considered among the most prestigious honors in nature photography. This year they recieved a record number of 43,000+ images from 94 countries.

About Floris: artist statement (directly from his website)
Each of my images is the result of patient hours spent in the field, exploring, learning, feeling, and seeing. Occasionally everything aligns and I get to bring home meaningful images, but I enjoy every minute of the wilderness regardless of my photographic success. Currently, my equipment of choice is a Canon digital SLR, a wide array of Canon lenses, and Singh-Ray filters. This is an exciting time in photography, and I fully embrace the power of the digital darkroom to turn the raw camera data into works of art that have the emotional impact of a painting, but with the detail, authenticity, and direct connection to nature that comes with photography. It is very important to me that my images are photographs, and not paintings, as it means that they are in fact real events that I experienced in real places. You could go out and see these places for yourself, in fact, I hope my images inspire you to do just that. The brain is a wonderful piece of machinery; a complex network of close to 1 billion neurons, and of those almost 300 million are involved in visual processing. What this means is, what you "see", is not in fact, "reality" as it is. If you need convincing, take a look at some of these optical illusions. Thus, it should be no surprise to you that using a camera to produce an image that looks similar to what we experience is not trivial. In fact, in many cases a significant amount of post processing of photographs is required to render the scene as it was experienced in person. So, while I do my best to capture my photographs in traditional single exposures where possible, often times I will make use of multiple exposures of the same scene to blend together for increased control of tonal range, image quality, and subject motion. In every case I strive to make my art honest to the original scene, with modest contrast and saturation adjustments for aesthetic considerations; I never add or remove significant elements. If you are interested in learning more about my methods, I invite you to read my articles, peruse my blog, and sign up for a workshop. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.