One of my oldest and most faithful social friend is Earl Lundquist, Creative Director, located in Austin, Texas. Once we met on Tumblr and since then we have been watching our mutual progress in photography. Earl fascinates and inspires me in what short time he has put a remarkable development from the photographer to the artist. He spills up with creativity and on his website The Earl Lundquist Studio he sells a few but all the more fantastic works of his work for sale.Earl has an inimitable feel for composition, which affects the viewpoint and focus as well as the colors in his works. He has achieved a goal that many photographers only dream about: his own style. With closed eyes I could recognize a real Lundquist and in my repertoire of design possibilities I even named a color after him: the Lundquist green, which I love beyond measure!His landscapes reflect an infinite expanse in which one would lose himself, if the eye of the beholder would not find a point of rest in focus on a distant barn or randomly scattered hay bales: Deep In The Panhandle of Texas. His oceans are deep blue with an extremely wide horizon and just as quiet as the landscape, but also powerful in the colors and never mundane or simply beautiful as with so many sunsets at the sea, but rather unique in their artistic expression: Piece (Peace). Portraits are stylized and sophisticated with a subtle eroticism that is obscurely concealed and yet revealed.

Earl undoubtedly reached his climax in his Thisness Series, and the image of the same name leaves room for interpretation, fantasy and dream. As a milestone of his artistic work, it marks for me the beginning of a journey into the magnificent picture world of Earl Lundquist and I am full of anticipation for what will come.