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| Long Island Artist - Bob Retnauer |
 Bob Retnauer is a 50-year old Landscape Architect who concentrates on landscape, seascape and nature photography as an additional creative outlet. Although he has been capturing film and digital images since his teenage years, he only recently felt compelled to share them with the world outside his family and friends.
A native Long Islander, Bob resides in the hamlet of St. James with his wife and teenage son. For the past 20 years he has had opportunities to travel including visiting over 40 US States as well as Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Bermuda, Ireland, England and France. These experiences have helped mold his observation skills and appreciation for detail, which often shows through in his work.
As with landscape design, Bob tries to convey a sense of space in his photographs. For him, they create a fingerprint of time and light while channeling the “genius loci” or spirit of a place. It might be the first glow of an ocean sunrise over a sand dune or a thick autumn mist hanging in the leaves of forest trees. A photograph can be serene, spiritual or even unsettling...but like all art, touches each of us a little bit differently and in ways that often cannot be expressed in words.
Although his primary images are in vivid color, he also produces long-exposure black-and-white images that capture and synthesize the movements of sea, sky and wind.
Bob uses a variety of cameras ranging from the Canon Rebel series to the Canon 5D Mark II, various colored and neutral density filters and post-processing to capture and depict the feelings that he is trying convey. His images are for sale in local fine galleries and at local art shows and fairs. He invites everyone to experience and enjoy his “places, spaces and light”.
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