Artist Statement

My portfolios, "On Wings", Nature´s Softies", "Invisible Angels", Ripple Dance", "My Panoramic Vision", "Wabi-Sabi", "Wichita-Scapes" are part of my visual experiment to show the softness and beauty of our fragile natural world. The series of soft focus color photographs or monochrome landscape images, high resolution fine details, forms, shapes, tones, contrasts, depth, create a dynamic, realistic but sometimes imaginative series of photographs.

Photography is an expression of the world we live in and of what we see and experience. In all aspects of our natural environments, I seek, observe, and feel the invisible. Each image captures several moments of invisible, and translates them into a dreamy image. Beyond just the aesthetic beauty of the subject, the photographs testify to the half-faded memories of dreams, ghosts, and imaginations expressed by the animals, plants, the Prairie and the Mountains around them. These works represent a new direction in perceiving and photographing nature and challenges the viewer to feel the morning breeze and silence surrounding the photographed subjects in their natural habitat.

My Mission: to observe, understand, accept, and create art which communicates between Humans and Nature.


Artist Biography

Laszlo Perlaky is a Baylor faculty member at Texas Children´s Cancer Center during the week and an avid nature photographer on the weekends. He was born and raised in Hungary and traveled throughout Europe, Japan, and the USA, finally settling with his family in Houston, TX in 1990.

His high affinity towards both the natural environment and the camera helped him pursue photography and gradually perfect his craft. At the present time, he uses a Nikon DSLR system and his Linhof Master Technika 4x5 large format camera with Schneider and Nikon lenses. He scans his 4x5 films, processes his digital captures in high-tech computers, and produces archival pigment ink prints.

He is member of several national and international photographic organizations such as the North American Nature Photography association (NANPA), naturArt (Hungary), Houston Center for Photography (HCP), Houston Photographic Society (HPS), New England Large Format Photography Collective (NELFPC) and loves to teach photography. He leads monthly Photo-walks at Brazos Bend State Park, conducts his Naturalperl Sunrise and Sunset workshops and teaches photography at the Houston Center for Photography (HCP) and at the Houston Photographic Study Group (HPSG). He is the past editor and publisher of the Silver Image (2001, 2003), Field Contributor to Nature Photographer magazine and Artistic Director and Photography curator of the Fill Your Cup Coffee Shop Gallery (Richmond, TX).

He won several prestigious awards in national and international photography contests, published his images in magazines, books, calendars, exhibited his work on group and solo exhibitions and successfully participated on Art Auctions, Art Walks and Art Festivals. His limited edition color and black and white photographs, signed and numbered by the artist, are available for sale.