THE ART OF ABANDONMENT Henry River Mill Village , The Hunger Games District 12 Hickory , North Carolina
Photographer / Writer : Walter Arnold TheDigitalMirage . com
Walter Arnold is a self-taught fine art photographer born in Tallahassee , Florida in 1981 . Walter grew up in a creative and artistic family and spent most of his childhood in Elmira , New York . After living for years in Florida he settled in Hendersonville , North Carolina and now calls the mountains home . After picking up his first digital SLR camera in 2006 , Walter used the beauty of Western North Carolina to help train his creative eye and hone his photographic skills . In 2009 , he
64 PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE stumbled on an abandoned airplane graveyard in St . Augustine , Florida . Shooting the abandoned planes , he discovered his passion for abandonment photography . Since then he has focused on developing his own personal style of photography that he calls “ The Art of Abandonment ”.
Walter ’ s vision draws him to capture unusual and artistic scenes in places that others often pass by . He employs an artistic technique called High Dynamic
Range photography with many of his images . By capturing multiple exposures ranging from dark to bright , his technique reveals a greater range of light and detail in a scene than could be captured with a single image . This , coupled with Walter ’ s creative interpretation of a scene , allows him to create non-traditional and sometimes surreal images , that bring to life the forgotten locations that he explores . Walter ’ s photography has received national and international recognition . Most no-