Landscape, nature, urban, and architectural fine art photography by Kim Malco. Based in Los Angeles.
The architectural photography is mainly of Los Angeles County and Toronto, Ontario. Browse those Groups, i.e. California or Canada, and then look for any Galleries where the thumbnail looks like architecture or sculpture.
Site Overview: The fine art nature photography portfolio on this site features images of the following regions:
Arizona; California; Canada; Costa Rica; Oregon; Utah; Washington; Wisconsin. Plus a B&W set that pretty much parallels the geographic locations of the color images.
Please click on the main navigation link "Portfolio" to browse the images. The various image galleries are organized into nine primary sets that are called groups. A group is like a folder that contains various related image galleries. Once you get inside one of the groups, choose a particular gallery to browse. Once inside of a gallery with its individual image thumbnails, you can now play that particular gallery as a slideshow.
If you start playing that particular gallery slideshow, there is an escape arrow (it says "Back to Gallery") available to you that will take you back to the top page of that gallery, in other words the thumbnail page for that particular gallery. To get to a different group of galleries from that particular gallery, simply click again on the main Portfolio menu item so that you can again see all nine main groups.
Brief artist biography.
Kim Malco specializes in nature photography and has been shooting the great outdoors for twenty years.
Mr. Malco was raised in the Fox River Valley of northeast Wisconsin, the oldest of six children. He has resided in Los Angeles for thirty years.
Kim Malco studied philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and film at the University of California-Irvine.
Kim uses mainly Canon cameras and lenses.
Navigation tips for the galleries.
This landscape portfolio features 2200 images organized alphabetically by geographic region. There are roughly 1900 color images and 300 B&W images. (Those two mega-sets are kept carefully separated from one another with almost zero overlap.) Farther down this page, I provide tips on finding desired images where your desired topic is not strictly geographic in nature, but rather more thematic (long story short: use the internal Zenfolio search box).
All of the images on this site are in horizontal aspect ratio, to give the site a consistent feel.
The portfolio features images of the following geographic regions:
Arizona; California; Canada; Costa Rica; Oregon; Utah; Washington; Wisconsin. Plus a B&W set of galleries at the end of the gallery list.
The portfolio line-up is organized in just that manner: in alphabetic order. Since I have resided in California for many years, California dominates the portfolio (about a third of the grand total).
Within the portfolio, the color images have been carefully separated from the B&W images. The B&W galleries are at the end of the gallery list.
Navigation tips for the galleries, continued.
Each gallery on the site is restricted to about 40 to 60 images. This practice restricts the number of thumbnails for each gallery to a reasonable quantity for display and slideshow purposes.
The galleries are arranged with a certain amount of sub-regional logic. Browse each gallery in turn and you will understand what the images in that gallery have in common in terms of geography and location. (Note that the B&W galleries are more of a melting pot; they do not have as much geographic logic, but since the image files are naturally in alphabetical order, there is a modest amount of geographic logic even there.)
Navigation tips for the galleries, continued.
The entire portfolio is carefully keyworded; use the internal Zenfolio search box to find an image of a particular location or subject.
The keyword task has been done so well that if you try to find something and get nothing as a result, chances are very good that the site simply does not have that topic.
The images have been keyworded for both literal geographic location and for the more poetic bucket of thematic content; e.g. "tropical beach" or "snow scene" or "pond in woods" or "wild river" or "temperate rain forest" or "cholla cactus" or "pretty sunset" or "garden flowers" or "Los Angeles architecture" or "Toronto architecture."
This underlying database including thematic thoughts and suggestions is important, because the site's groups and galleries are organized strictly according to the literal geographic region of the image.
Again: use the internal search box to find a highly specific topic, no matter how specific. The site also lists the species and Family of plant and animal close-ups. If there is a CU and no botanical or zoological ID, that means the research to obtain that data was frustrating and currently unsuccessful. Even if the topic of your desired image search might seem subjective and poetic, this possibility has been carefully considered and such topics definitely included in the keyword database.
Navigation tips for the galleries, continued.
About the Home Page slideshow.
The Home Page function is to be an entertaining introduction to the work. There are links from those particular Home Page slideshow images over to a manual version of the Home Page slideshow (but unfortunately not to the regular gallery items.) The Home Page slideshow loops (jumps from the last item back to the first item and starts the show all over again).
The Home Page slide set has been capped at about 98 items. This slide set includes representative image samples from all of the site's groups (sets of galleries, such as "Arizona" or "California") and almost all of the site's galleries. Except for the B&W group. The Home Page slide set is all color.
For practical site searching, always start at the Portfolio top page. Please do not start picking individual items from the Home Page slideshow; click on the Portfolio link instead, in the top ribbon. For useful searching and browsing of the site, please always start at the Portfolio top page. Each gallery on the site has its own slideshow. You can also stop gallery slideshow automatic function and click through the slides manually, one by one, at your leisure.
Navigation and Search Summary and Iteration.
Regarding the main Portfolio section of the site. As described above, there are groups of galleries. Such as "Arizona". A group is like a folder that contains a collection of geographically and/or thematically related galleries. This set of nine groups is what you see at first when you click the main Portfolio link in the top ribbon. Inside of those groups are sets of galleries. About 2 to 27 galleries per group.
During regular gallery slideshows (the galleries that are found under the "Portfolio" menu tree), there is always a hovering "Back to Gallery" back-arrow (hover anywhere over the middle portion of the window during slideshow play) to the gallery top page from which you started. Note, however, that if you then click your browser's regular back-arrow, you will be taken back to the point that you were at a moment ago inside of the slideshow that you were just watching. You will not be taken back to the group top page by the regular browser back-arrow after watching a slideshow. To get to a fresh group-and-gallery choice, click on the main Portfolio link again in the top menu ribbon.
Gallery slideshows loop; after the last slide, the system returns to the first slide and the show starts all over again.
The long Homepage "best of" slideshow is also set to loop. Watch it all again.
There are two always-reliable search paths on this site:
a) from the top Portfolio page, pick a particular group and then browse the various galleries (that are inside of the regional groups); kind of like wandering through a department store. Use the textual group and gallery Captions that are at the top of each page to get somewhat more specific clues about what is inside of that group or gallery. Or:
b) go to the top Portfolio page or to a regional-group top page, and use the internal search box by entering a query (in other words, a keyword) into the search box. This internal search tool cannot be over-emphasized; it prevents excessive wandering while browsing in the site's galleries. Take advantage of all of the elbow grease that we put into this search tool.
Thank you for your interest in outdoor photography and for your support of this art. Write to [email protected] to inquire about making prints, editorial website image usage, magazine or book image usage, or collaborative partnerships such as stock services.
Kim Malco Photography, Los Angeles.