Beautifully Filmed Documentary Will Bring Out The Explorer In Anyone

Alexandre Deschaumes is an acclaimed landscape and adventure photographer whose work creates a colorful dreamlike world made up of some of the planet's most rugged and unique terrain. The documentary film "La Quete D'Inspirations" (The Quest for Inspiration) is a breathtakingly beautiful film that depicts Deschaumes' work and his ultimate search for finding his own way as he magnifies the natural landscape.

Like all of us, Deschaumes is greatly inspired by the colors, shapes, and lines that exist all around us. Since 2002, Deschaumes has been driven to wander. "[It is] a kind of inner calling, experimental catharsis in response to a strange melancholy," he says. Spending an entire season wandering the craggy landscape of Patagonia, this film picks up Deschaumes trek to face the raw, unforgiving grit of nature in his quest for breathtaking landscape photography.

Not just inspired by the plainly visible, Deschaunes makes an effort in his work to showcase his inspiration. His goal is to pictorially communicate his personal and emotional interpretations of his surroundings. A profoundly deep individual, he describes his work as an "invocation of untold energies ... of all things, it's the atmosphere that guides me."

Through extreme isolation of body and mind, this movie picks up Deschaunes eccentricities in his work as he searches for his inspiration in dramatically impressive landscapes. Available to purchase for $10 on Reelhouse, this 52-minute documentary will make you rethink your perspective of how you approach landscape photography. In collaboration with author, director, and camera operator Mathieu Le Lay and filmed on a Canon 5D Mark III, "La Quete D'Inspirations" will leave you wanting to explore more of the world around you as well as the landscape within your own mind.

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Jason Hudson is a writer and photographer living in Central Coast California. Jason is currently a full time photographer and designer at a reputable branding firm and has freelance clients ranging from GoPro, Phillips, Outdoor Magazine and more. For inquiries about Jason's work, The Keller Whale, visit www.thekellerwhale.com

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Awesome. As a non-professional hobby photographer that's what keeps me going on a small scale like today. Driving a hundred miles and walking about 10 miles just because the sun is shining after weeks of raining. And then being rewarded with a nice sunset at a place where I haven't been before.

And... i've bought it!! And i'm going to watch this over and over again...and i have no life, and i want to flee...and i want to make my 6D an happy camera..

It's a gorgeous film. Patagonia is truly an epic landscape on so many photographers bucket list. Was it just me or did anyone else want to yell at this guy for running around with his camera on a tripod, getting his boots wet and then being in snow, hiking through snow without you gear (boots) tied up, walking through heavy falling snow WITH his 70-200 on the camera and on the tripod (not even using the collar mount but depending on the camera base-plate) WITH the tripod legs AND center column fully extended, AND with that lens pointed straight up into the snow???!?

Look, there's adventure photography and "being in it" and then theres acting like an idiot (not calling him an idiot... Merely playing the part) and putting yourself, your gear, and others in danger.

They also heavily color graded that film, or he was trying out for the next installment of Avatar. (Oh go on - you were thinking it too)

I know (I mean, directly from the man, that's his personal view and he voices it) that he considers his photography tools -and I know it can seem surprising to some here- as actual tools.
He doesn't hesitate to take his gear out in harsh, or very harsh conditions and do whatever it takes to get the shot he wants to attempt.
And I must say... he appears to succeed most of the time. So, from there on the point is moot, don't you think ?

Also, for color grading, I remember reading an interview about it in which he said they just tried to match with his own style, and I must say they did the job pretty well.