Dan Holdsworth's landscape photography evoke a kind of surreal aspect - many of them deal with the effects of light and how it changes the feel of a landscape. Holdsworth uses photography according to its original purpose - "the obsolete principle of light and time compressed to the translucent sliver of film, developed in the blind claustrophobia of darkness" (as it says in his biography). He creates landscapes surrounding themes such as sublime landscape, technology versus nature, hyper-modernity, and spiritual drive. His colors for the landscapes are quite saturated and the blurred effects give a sense of time that has past. "North of Nanaimo" from his project "Infinite Picture" gives this surreal landscape - not because of what is in the landscape but because of the colors and light effects. The cool blue-teal color evokes a calm and relaxed feeling.
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