Richard Childs – First Light

Richard Childs visited the Great British Landscape head office this week (aka Tim’s attic) and as well as enjoying the usual inter photographer chit chat we recorded a few videos about some of his images. As usual, we’re using a similar format to Joe’s videos, a popular shot, a not so popular shot and, in this case, a shot that is a bit different from Richard’s usual modus operandi – taken with a medium format camera at the start of setting up his business in Scotland. For those of you who don’t know Richard’s work, take a look at his website at http://www.richardchildsphotography.co.uk which I’m told may well be updated this summer.

Richard uses a large format camera** and strolls to the top of great mountains carrying the equivalent in weight to fifteen bottles of whisky!! And that is quite a lot of whisky!!

** I know – we keep featuring all of these film and large format people – suggestions for DSLR digital photographers would be most welcome, please use the ‘feedback’ tab on the left hand side of this page – if they’re in the North of England, even better).


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2 Responses

  1. Great to hear the stories behind these images, especially the third one which has been a favourite image of mine for some time. The first one is really growing on me too – I had been very curious as to where it was taken – mystery solved now!

    Interesting too to hear what Richard says about an odd-number of points of interest resulting in a more balanced image – obvious when it’s pointed out, but something I hadn’t thought much about before.

    A fascinating addition to the series, many thanks to Richard and Tim. :-)

    Doug.

  2. Nice, very nice. I was struck by one thing that Richard said during his commentary about the second image: “I like to take pictures of where I am, rather than what I’m looking at”. I switched over to his website (lots of new images…) and indeed, the photos do tend to the vista rather than the intimate landscape. I have not heard any photographer put it so directly. Richard’s images do have that “sense of place” that is often a category in competitions but I was never really sure what the judges might be looking for. Perhaps my question has been answered! Rgds., Adam

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