Inspiration

This photograph was taken in October 2019 in the Retezat Mountains, Romania. It was a cold (but not very cold for the season and altitude) autumn morning and I hiked more than an hour in the dark from the tent to get to the Bucura peak (2433m alt.) in time before sunrise. My plan was... read more.

I was thinking about taking this photo for a long time; I had visited this place a year before, in the summer. I knew that the tree in the middle hill did not give much contrast. read more.

Fred Bucheton is an IT systems engineer living in Paris. In 2009, he started learning photography and its different techniques, the self-taught route. He has been fascinated by the mountains since childhood, and as a result, he developed a strong passion for hiking, and more recently, mountaineering. Fred is passionate about exploring new locations and watching light creating ethereal atmospheres. Over the last few years he has enjoyed travelling to and photographing some breathtaking locations in many countries. More recently, his photographic approach has changed, Fred no longer plans shooting vistas, but is interested in more spiritual, intimate scenes. read more.

The photo was taken in a place very dear to me, in the Dolomites, on the plateau of Piz Boe. It's a place... read more.

As landscape photographers, we are acutely aware of the power of symmetry in our images’ composition. Symmetry is a tool allowing us to add harmony, clarity and balance. Asymmetry (in simple terms, breaking an established pattern) can be just as useful as symmetry... read more.