Tim Parkin

Sunsets?

I’ve just read an article in a popular outdoor photography magazine that was written in defense of shooting sunsets that I can’t help but write a reaction to.   He does say in the article that he knows many photographers   [ read ]

Hindsight – Family Holidays

A bit of a departure for Joe here as he takes his family off to New Mexico for a holiday. Like most photographers though, there was no option but to take one or two (or four) cameras and it’s a   [ read ]

John Blakemore

Unlike many of the photographers we have discussed in our ongoing Masters section, John wasn’t a photographer from childhood, being more obsessed with drawing wildlife. His passion for photography was inspired when his mother sent him an issue of Picture   [ read ]

Spirit of Simplicity

Representations of landscapes throughout western art history have taken a back seat to works depicting the dramas of human existence. In many cases landscapes were reduced to a stage set in a historical painting or a stylised backdrop for a   [ read ]

Black and White Photographers Workshop – John Blakemore

John Blakemore has taught photography for over two decades and has worked as a fine art photographer for that period also. This book tries to distil his teaching into a single tome, covering technical and artistic bases along the way.   [ read ]

Composition – An Introduction to Balance

Balance in Photography The concept of balance in photography is not a new one, just this week I received another book on composition that says “The components of a great photograph should always be in balance” which is great as   [ read ]

Hidden Depths

Ok, I admit it. I’m a bagger, a list ticker, a trophy collector. I’ve accepted what I am and I’m not going to change. Over the years I’ve collected lots of different things from Matchbox cars, tin soldiers and beer   [ read ]

Robert Garrigus

Robert Garrigus volunteered his photographs to be the subject of Joe Cornish and Tim Parkin’s photography critique and what a good couple of compositions they were too. Many thanks Robert.  

The Photographer’s Place

A couple of weeks ago I went on a workshop, a workshop that continues a series that started in the early 1980s and that have along the way have had photographers such as Fay Godwin, Lewis Baltz, John Blakemore, Aaron   [ read ]