Breck Rothage: Automotive Artist Capturing the Essence of Art and the Automobile

As an automotive photographer and editor, I spend a lot of time looking at and editing images of cars, my own as well as those taken by other photographers. And like many of you, I have my favorites; Lucinda Lewis, whose book Roadside America is the gold standard coffee table book of period-correct imagery of vintage cars, Les Bidrawn, the Editor of european car, whose mastery of the pan shot leaves me in awe, and evo shooter Gus Gregory, who can make a drive to the supermarket in a minivan look spectacular.

But today I want to point you in another direction, to Breck Rothage, an outstanding artist whom I’ve profiled today over at Automotive Traveler. Breck, who works in the area of extensively enhanced photographs, shows just how far a true artist can go working within the framework of Photoshop. Spending 40 hours or more on each image–something that those of us who toil in the area of editorial photography can only dream about–Brock combines art and the auto in unique ways, with the limit of his imagination the only limit on his creativity.