Against The Grain viaCanadian photographer Matt Molloy spends a lot of time with his landscape subjects. The many hours spent camped out under the naked sky are quintessential to his final product, and not just the process. Whereas the tip of the iceberg that is a photograph often involves a captured moment that implies a greater body of intimacy and study beneath what’s visible, Molloy’s “timestack” photography puts the entire iceberg front and center—spotlit in a way that makes us admire, and not fear, our place among the bigger things in life.
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These “timestacked” images are comprised of hundreds of shots of the same landscape or area. They’re uploaded, cropped, and positioned in tedious collage-style, in order to capture the inseparability of time’s passing and Earth’s landscapes. In fact, Molloy goes the extra length to remove blemishes like airplane trails and other manmade residues from his photos in favor, and the pursuit, of purity. One example of this is Bulls Eye Sky(below), which Molloy claims, over at his 500px.com site, he spent “way too much time” on. But the beauty of this starry-night cocktail of 377 different photographs shows how “too much” time is actually the perfect amount for capturing the limitlessness of our stars.Molloy uploads new pieces at least once a month over at his website, which you can find here. See some more of his gorgeous work below:
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