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We’re featuring another digital photographer this month** who is from Yorkshire and came to my attention with his wonderful image of an old railway fence above Dent station. His flickr stream contains some classic compositions and I hope you enjoy his work and comments as much as I did In most photographer’s lives there are [...]
Those of you who have been out with me and my camera or who have attended one of my workshops or tours will know that I am drawn to old buildings and vehicles. On days where the weather or the light conspire to make working wider landscapes difficult I like nothing better than to go [...]
Photographer’s Institute Press should be well known to landscape photographers, they are the company behind outdoor photographer but they also publish photography books. Examples are the classic “Nature Photography Field Guide” by John Shaw and the series of books by Peter Watson, Capturing the Light, Light in the Landscape, Reading the Landscape and Seasons of [...]
My photographic career/obsession/love/passion – call it what you will – began with a flattened instamatic 110 film camera. Sleek. Fitted the pocket. Easy load cassette film. It even extended to reveal the shutter release. As a bit of a gadget freak even then I confess to being instantly hooked though technical “control” was not one [...]
A few months ago, Joe Cornish galleries made an open call out for entries into a competition to exhibit at the gallery. Entrants were asked to speculatively submit framed images and the winners would be hung at the gallery. We went down to the gallery and asked Joe to show us around. We did have [...]
One of our accepted goals as photographers is to ensure that our final ‘product’ is correctly exposed (we’ll come back to what ‘correctly exposed’ actually means later). Digital cameras can supposedly record 13 stops of dynamic range but real world tests show that although it’s possibly to detect differences at the 10th, 11th and 12th [...]
This issue we’re talking to Michela Griffith, a photographer who lives near Buxton and whose landscape work I originally saw in the ‘Developing Vision and Style’ books and whose site I saw quite recently whilst investigating women in landscape photographer (a question I raise with Michela and one we’ll no doubt return to. In most [...]
And we have a winner for our ‘win a full frame camera’ competition. We had 20 entries and picked out David Langan as a winner. David Recommended a flickr photography by the tag of ‘Hogne’. We’ll be contacting him in the next few issues. David wins an Olympus OM1 combined with two lenses, a 50mm [...]
Tasmania, Primal Places Now this book is something else. Joe showed me this a couple of years ago and I was immediately taken. The reproduction and paper quality is superb and the pictures, oh my! I’ve included a few extracts below but all I can say is “buy this book”. The narrative is also very [...]
We’ve been wanting to feature Chris Bell for some time. He’s a favourite photographer of both myself and Joe Cornish (Joe showed me his book Primal Places some time ago). It’s also become a favourite of most people who I’ve shown the books to. Chris continues the environmental and artistic work of Olegas Truchanas and [...]
In actual fact, I am not, and therein lies the theme of this article. As human beings we all have command and control of a computer that far exceeds in sophistication and integration anything built by NASA, and yes, that is our brain. (If only it felt that way when I reach my afternoon ‘dip’ [...]
David Muench is one of the first great colour landscape photographers. With a huge back catalogue of publications, he has influenced a generation of photographers and has created many of the places americans now call icons. Tim Parkin and Joe Cornish go through the book “Nature’s America” discussing it’s influence on Joe and the assets [...]