Tim Parkin

Light and Land – Michael Frye

Michael Frye may be known as the ‘Coloured Cactus’ man by those of you who have only seen him in the “World’s Top Photographers : Landsacpe” book but he has more than just a flashgun and some coloured gels to   [ read ]

Aspect Ratios – Part 2

In the first part of this discussion on aspect ratios I genuinely attempted to question the assumptions we all hold about aspect ratio, including the fact that four sides to our working ground is an inevitable paradigm. The responses received   [ read ]

A Colour Film Comparison

This is the first post in a series of articles comparing all of the colour film available to the large format photographer*. Background Some of you may be asking ‘Why are you talking about film? Isn’t it nearly extinct?’ and   [ read ]

The Art of Slowing Down

Introduction Could it be that the very things that make digital capture so appealing also inhibit the creative process of image making? Could those who make images using dSLRs or compact digital cameras benefit from eschewing speed and fine-tuning through   [ read ]

Back to the Fuchsia

Here is the first in a series of videos started with Joe’s ‘Post Processing Borders’ where photographers look at some of their own pictures and show how they post processed them. This first picture is one taken on the isle   [ read ]

Digital Landscape Photography – Michael Frye

I must confess to having sat down to read this book with little enthusiasm.The book stores are full of ‘guides to digital photography’, promising much but delivering little of real value. My enthusiasm hit rock bottom when I read the   [ read ]

Full Frame – David Noton

First, the man. There can be few landscape photographers in the UK who haven’t heard of David Noton. He has emerged on the crest of the digital SLR revolution as one of the foremost digital landscape photographers in this country.   [ read ]

Hindsight – Etive and Orchy

We’re taking a little detour in our Hindsight series with a video covering two complementary images from Joe’s Scotland’s Mountains book – one you’ve seen before and one not. The first is a photo from Glen Orchy taken under very   [ read ]

Chris Friel

Chris Friel is a photographer with a wonderful, natural eye – a modern day Faye Godwin perhaps. His photography is instinctive and all the more refreshing for it. A high bandwidth flickr stream has some stunning gems and whilst he   [ read ]

Transformed by Light

I recently spent an amazing four days in Perthshire at the tail end of autumn. In truth the weather was far more wintry than autumnal. I encountered reedy frozen lochans, birch trees in deep glens covered in hoar frost, and   [ read ]

Bill Brandt

Bill Brandt is a photographer that is probably well known to a generation of photographers who worked in the sixties and seventies (and maybe the eighties) but unless you are the investigative sort, you may have only heard the name   [ read ]

Christmas Update

We thought christmas was a good opportunity to thank everyone of you who has supported the new venture by taking out a paid subscription, a free subscription or just by visiting and maybe talking about the magazine. We’ve had a   [ read ]