
The magazine is building up pace and this issue brings together some great winter content from Joe Cornish about his Scotland’s Mountains book project and advice from eleven landscape photographers about dealing with the cold. But it’s the feedback we’ve been getting from you that has us most excited and planning for bigger and better things. Our winter will undoubtedly be incredibly busy but we hope the snowy conditions inspire your photography. Until next issue!
Tim Parkin

David Tolcher
In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. What were your two main moments and how did they change your photography? There were really 2 moments that changed my photography. I [ read ]

Dealing with Cold Weather
It’s been an exceptionally cold start to the year which I find deeply annoying because my supposed ‘snowmobile’ is out of action and being repaired after a blown headgasket that I suffered on the return trip from Cornwall a couple [ read ]
Ad-hoc Reverse ND Graduated Filters
One of the issues that sometimes comes up when doing landscape photography in the UK (and I’m sure abroad sometimes too, but I never go there) is that we have clouds; lots of them; All over the bloody place. This [ read ]

Olympus EP1 versus Panasonic GF1
I was an early adopter of the m4/3rds ‘compact’ system buying a Panasonic GF-1 with 20mm lens pretty much as soon as they became available. It promised so much. It was to replace the Canon G10 that I owned and [ read ]

Secret Affair
OK, I’m coming clean, and I think it’s only right that I do it publicly and nationally in this magazine. I have been having a secret affair. It’s been going on for about four years now but has been far [ read ]

Hindsight – Cairngorms
In this Hindsight Joe Cornish talks about three pictures taken in the Cairngorms for Scotland’s Mountains. Like before, we talk about one of the featured pictures, a picture that didn’t quite work out and finally – a picture that ended [ read ]


on Joe Cornish – Reader’s Questions
These interviews and Q&A podcasts are not only very enjoyable in their own right (like listening to a radio discussion), but also excellent to listen to while scanning or post-processing images. Thanks Joe for introducing the two wildlife photographers you mentioned: they produce different but equally inspiring and unusual work. Adam [...]
- Adam Pierzchala, 22:12 11th Feb
on Put Your Questions to Hans Strand
Yes, medium format will have a tough future. Though there are still people (including myself) who think it is worth the extra cost to get an extra edge. The difference is more obvious when you make large prints. A one meter wide print from medium format will convince you about [...]
- Hans Strand, 20:37 1st Feb
on Samantha Gibbons
Hi Samantha, it was great to see your images and to read how you feel about photography! I like what you say, "how beautiful the landscape around us really is.. It’s almost religious", as I feel almost the same! Your vistas have this subtle but intriguing light but I also like [...]
- Beata Moore, 10:09 30th Jan