So what is “On Landscape” about then? Well, it’s simply about landscape photography. Which is great but that leaves a lot of room for maneuvre still, for instance what exactly is landscape photography? I’ve had this discussion on my personal blog a couple of times and the closer you look at it the more the edges blur. There are some areas that we’ll say aren’t landscape photography just to try to apply some amount of continuity. For instance, if a photograph can be described as Urban Photography, then it probably isn’t landscape photography as this site defines it. The same goes for Architectural Photography, Wildlife Photography and Macro Photography. There will be fuzzy areas and we will bend the rules on occasion (think of the website editorial policy as being a benevolent dictatorship rather than a democratic free for all).

But what sort’s of landscape photography are we going to look at? Well, think of the classics of landscape photography, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, David Muench, etc culminating in their modern day ancestors, Christopher Burkett, Charles Cramer Paul Wakefield, etc and then throw in some of the landscape photography from the art community, Edward Weston, Minor White, Robert Adams, etc continuing with present day ancestors Joel Sternfeld, Edward Burtysky, Gem Southam. Throw in some in betweens such as David Ward, Andrew Nadolski and Michael Kenna. There are a huge number of British photographers that are working in between all of these genres or styles, from bold romantic to post-modern deadpan. Even though both myself and Joe work around the romantic end of these genres, we both have an interest in all forms of photography that use the landscape and composition to create an artistic result; that combine art and craft to produce something admirably creative. Here’s a sample of the sort’s of photographer’s that are representative of the types of work we’d like to include here (this is not meant to be a list of best, just a cross section).

We won’t deny that there is a huge craft component to photographic art (no matter how some parts of the art community work to cover it up) and the magazine will work to explain, expand and review parts of photography that play a part in the production of the end result. We won’t review every camera that appears, but we will look at some aspects of the more important ones; the game changers. We won’t teach you how to use every menu that appears in photoshop but we will show you how to use some of them to improve or interpret your pictures. We won’t be teaching you how paste in new skies or how to take dog portraits on the beach but we will be helping you find new locations, find the picture when you are out and about and how help guide a viewers eye around a picture using composition and post processing.

We are open to suggestions and really want to make this website a positive influence in landscape photography, helping keep minds open and art moving forward; and if we don’t manage that, at least I hope we can help people take better photos and show people some inspirational work.