“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” Shakespeare wrote in Sonnet 18. Yet, fine art photographer Diane Allison manages to stop summertime with her camera. In a salute to the season, Allison's photos capture quintessential macro moments, and digital enhancements add a bit of photographic fairy dust.
A Denver native, the artist shoots 30 to 100 images almost daily and favors the Colorado outdoors. "I am compelled to get out every single day, even if [it's] overcast, because the light is always incredible.”
The images selected are vivid and magical, infused with light that feels typical of summer’s long days of dazzling sunshine. There are ripe fruits and sparkling fireworks, luminous rainbows in pewter skies and sunshine-spangling lake water. And yet, the artist’s keen eye and digital touch also make the familiar seem foreign. A bee’s wing resembles black lace, and the dreamy gleam of a gilded carousel horse captures summer’s lightheartedness.