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It’s that time of year again where hundreds of photographers around the UK end up dazed and confused and a small handful end up quite happy and one quite rich. Yes it’s the Take a View competition – the UK’s only dedicated landscape photography competition. I have been quite critical of the competition previously and [...]
Brimham Rocks is one of the UK’s strangest environments. The victorians thought it was some form of Druidic place of religious significance, such is the astonishing variety of rock outcrops and features, and it was only in the 20th Century that we realised it was just a remarkable array of environmental erosion. “For Brimham, could [...]
We’re hoping to include a regular column on post processing pictures in photoshop. These series won’t be concentrating on individual techniques (although we will expand on some of these if subscribers ask for more info) but we will be concentrating on how to make pictures work better; How to balance light, emphasise structure and guide [...]
The first fat raindrops slapped down onto the rocks around me. Above, an angry cloud had swallowed the mountain summit beneath which the mist of heavy rain swept down the ridge in my direction. Cursing the inaccurate weather forecasts I pressed on, head down against the storm, fifteen hundred feet of ascent yet to go. [...]