I have been photographing the landscape in Turkey for around 25 years with a 4x5� format camera.

My photographs are best defined as an attempt to align the formal aesthetic of nature with the correct light and to create a sense of calm and serenity using B&W techniques. Moments where the harmony of light coincides with the spirit are rare. And it is these moments that I strive to capture in my photography. My sole aim when taking photographs is to maximise their visual and descriptive quality; in other words, to achieve photographic perfection. What I hope is that my photographs recreate these magic moments for the viewer, allowing a glimpse and appreciation of the extraordinary in what appears to be completely ordinary.

Over that time I have always endeavoured to obtain the best quality prints using B&W techniques. I have also mastered a number of other techniques, notably colour, B&W silver gelatin and Platinum & Palladium (Pt/Pd) printing techniques.

In May 2004, I set up this website, motivated by the opportunity to share my photographic work.

My primary concern in the creation of every photograph is to obtain the highest-quality, most complete result. Whether during the actual taking or at the printing stage, I channel first my passion then my meticulous attention to detail into each photograph. My aim each time is to produce a photograph of archival standard as much through the elements that make it a whole as through subsequent technical processes and procedures. All the photographs exhibited on this website were taken with a 4x5� camera, which facilitates the absolute clarity and definition you see. They were printed using traditional wet darkroom methods and techniques.

The photographs here on my website are images from Turkey�s Lake District, the Kackar Mountains, the Eastern Taurus range, Antalya, Denizli, Afyon, Konya, Isparta, the Kaz Mountains and Eastern Anatolia. What attracts me most from a visual point of view is the natural beauty of rivers and streams; powerfully cascading waterfalls; the fragile, sensitive quality of the forest interior; and the abiding splendour of awesome mountains and their summits.

I have been fastidious in my choice of photographs for the website. My objective was to make a selection that most articulately expressed my approach to the photographic process, the wish to communicate images in my mind and imagination and to share moments. And I sense that I have probably succeeded in this.

I hope very much that you will enjoy my photographs�

Bulent Ozgoren

Istanbul, Turkey