I dislike photography that seeks self-consciously to be ‘painterly’; still less paintings that aspire to photorealism. A photographer is not a painter, and a painter is not a photographer, and to pretend otherwise is to diminish that which gives each form its meaning. But sometimes you take a photo that captures the spirit of a particular artist. You discover something in a scene, or evoke something within it, that brings to mind the way that he or she may also have approached the same subject. None of the photos below were taken specifically to ‘imitate’ a painter or a style. But there are resemblances, sometimes greater, sometimes less; resemblances that lie, perhaps, more in a way of seeing, than in the manner of doing.
JMW Turner
Mt Field, Yoho National Park, Canada, June 2012
Turner, Bambrugh Castle, c 1837
Mark Rothko
Sunset over the Istrian coast, July 2010
Rothko, Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange, 1955
Gustav Klimt
Wildlife Meadow, London Olympic Park, August 2012
Klimt, Flower Garden, 1905
Watanabe Seiti
Bluebird, south London, June 2012
Seiti, Crow on a branch, c 1895
Katsushika Hokusai
Winter Tree, south London, February 2012
Hokusai, Plum Branch, c 1802
Ohara Koson
December Moon, south London, December 2011
Plum Blossom and Moon, c 1895
Claude Monet
Water Lilies, Bennetts Water Gardens, Dorset, June 2007
Monet, Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, c 1905
Albert Bierstedt
Cathedral Mountain, Yoho National Park, Canada, June 2012
Bierstedt, Storm among the Alps, c 1856
Paul Cezanne
Towards Snowdon, North Wales, August 2012
Cezanne, Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves, c 1902
Bridget Riley
Aquatics Centre, London Olympic Park, July 2014
Riley, Intake, 1964
Pandaemonium 
Great use of light – the ‘Cezanne’ is the only one which doesn’t quite ‘work’ for me, but then you probably didn’t have the harsh preparation of the village lads throwing stones at you as you set off(?). Pandemonium feels like a satisfying world to live in – thanks Kenan.
I agree with you on ‘Cezanne’. I was in two minds about it.