In pursuit of Eden – a fine art portfolio of black and white landscape photography by Colin Stephenson documenting wilderness areas of the Garden Route. The broad, sweeping, black-and-white vistas of In pursuit of Eden suspend an impression of a disappearing wilderness in front of you, one captured with such crystalline purity that it feels that with one step you can enter the landscape. The stillness of the image within the frame invites and encourages you to immerse yourself in space and timelessness. It is a bold testament to what still exists, and forms part of a global manifesto demanding that we preserve what remains of our Wilderness areas.
Colin Stephenson Photography was commissioned to produce a detailed Photographic documentary of several of the Cape Nature reserves and the Reins Nature Reserve in the Garden Route, South Africa. This included landscape and seascape photography, botanical photography, wildlife and bird photography and scenic tourism imagery. Colin Stephenson spent a numbers of days on the various reserves walking key locations in order to photograph fynbos during flowering time, capture macro photographs of the endemic insects and birds that pollinate the fynbos. The best morning and evening light was dedicated to capturing dramatic landscape and seascape photography along the shoreline of the reserve. The nature photography has been used within a coffee table book on the nature reserve to promote the property for tourism.


















































