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or “Arghh!! For St Ansel’s sake, please tell me why!” I was on holiday in Glencoe when the news of Gursky’s record breaking picture hit the headlines. I must admit to not paying much attention to it, bandwidth being low and my interest being more in the context than the image itself. Once I returned [...]
It struck me today that I have a strange relationship with my new photos. I suspect that this has to do, in some way, with working with film and its lack of immediacy but mainly because these images are new to me – only ever previously glimpsed. Of course we’ve seen the photo before in [...]
Michael Jackson is best known for his 4-year-old (and continuing) exploration of the beach at Poppit Sands near Cardigan in west Wales. That length of commitment, which startles most photographers, is all the more remarkable because his chosen patch is little more than the size of a football pitch. He always uses the same camera, [...]
Ten Years at the Joe Cornish Gallery After producing First Light at the start of his career, possibly Britain’s most loved landscape photography book, Joe Cornish had to overcome the ‘difficult second and third album’ issues. These were put to bed with consummate ease with Scotland’s Coast and Scotland’s Mountains which were more personal in [...]
When I started my photographic journey about five or six years ago, the first photographers to make an impact on me were mostly the usual suspects, Joe Cornish, Charlie Waite, Colin Prior and a couple of others, all because of their book publications. Then there were the websites that I found as I browsed around [...]
We live in era of amazing advances in camera technology. High resolution DSLR cameras are available to photographers at very affordable prices. 80 Megapixel camera backs are available for medium and large-format photographers and of course, there is still a dedicated band of 35mm, medium and large format film photographers all creating amazing work.
Just over a week ago Joe Cornish and I spent a wonderful couple of hours with Jack Dykinga whilst he was preparing for his keynote speech at Wild Photos, a wildlife and nature conference held at the Royal Geographic Society. While waiting for Jack to get ready, we had the opportunity to see his presentation, [...]
In 2010 I left my job as an accountant in London and embarked on a European photography adventure. My plan was to travel from Provence through the Swiss and French Alps down into the heart of Italy and then make my way up to Slovenia via the Dolomites, part of the Italian Alps in the [...]
Great British Landscapes has published a number of articles on tilt-shift lenses so most readers will be familiar with the basics. The tilt facility (see Issue 12) is probably of most interest to landscape photographers. With a little practice and a planar (flat – or flattish) subject, this simple movement borrowed from large format cameras [...]
Amidst all the talk that film is now dead and Kodak is going away, a few people have reacted to the announcement of the new Kodak negative films and have gone out taking pictures. It’s true that for the 4×5 photographers amongst us, the death of quickload meant that we had to use double dark slides [...]