Artist Creates Stunning Animal Images Using Thousands of Nature Photos Combined Together
Photographic illustrator Josh Dykgraaf is completely reimagining wildlife photography by digitally combining animals and landscapes fused together as one to create something entirely unique.
Inspired by objects and scenery found in nature, as well as animal photography, his digital series “Terraform” invites viewers to contemplate some of the wondrous patterns in nature which, when combined, resonate with both contrast and harmony.
“I was surfing through some images I’d shot on a totally different project and had the observation that some rock formations in the Swiss Alps looked like the skin of an elephant,” Dykgraaf, of Melbourne, Australia, told My Modern Met of the project’s inception.
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By Emma Taggart on March 11, 2021
What if feathers, fur, and scales were actually just flower petals and leaves? Australian photographic illustrator Josh Dykgraaf reimagines animals composed entirely from found natural materials. His digitally rendered series, titled
Terraform, reminds us of the visible patterns found in nature. His latest works in particular highlight the similarity in shape between petals and reptile scales, as well as leaves and feathers. Each creature looks like some sort of hybrid species from an alien planet.
The inspiration for
Terraform came from a simple realization. “I was surfing through some images I d shot on a totally different project and had the observation that some rock formations in the Swiss Alps looked like the skin of an elephant,” Dykgraaf tells My Modern Met. “That became the first piece in the project,