
Tim Parkin

Great Wilderness Trek
During the making of Scotland’s Mountains, Joe never had the chance to take a long hike with a few friends – he recently had the opportunity to get back up to Scotland with a bit more time and those same [ read ]

What’s the Shift in Tilt / Shift?
Most people are familiar with the way that a shift lens can ‘fix’ the perspective (verticals) in buildings or trees, even if they haven’t tried these lenses themselves. How these lenses work is often not completely clear and even those [ read ]

From Hobby to Career
When I bought my first digital camera seven years ago, I hadn’t remotely considered that it might one day provide a career for me to follow. Over time, it occurred to me that I could perhaps one day make a [ read ]

Photography and Music
If you’ve read around the outskirts of photography for while, you can’t help but have come across the occasional use of music as a metaphor for some part or other of the photographic process. Whether you have or not, I’m [ read ]

Simply & The Quiet Land – Peter Dombrovskis
Simply, Peter Dombrovskis The only book readily available from Peter Dombrovskis is ‘Simply’ which although reaching the end of it’s print run, can still be bought from a couple of places in Tasmania (see Peter’s website for details) – I [ read ]

Peter Dombrovskis
I found out about Peter Dombrovskis when I was on a large format photography course with Joe Cornish and David Ward. Joe had a couple of books by Peter and both of them became very popular ‘hand arounds’ whilst whilst [ read ]

Doug Chinnery
This issue we’ve been chatting with photographer Doug Chinnery, a very talented photographer who works across a variety of styles. Hope you like.. In most photographers lives there are ‘epiphanic’ moments where things become clear, or new directions are formed. [ read ]

Simply Beautiful Photographs – National Geographic
How does one review a hefty tome such as this? With over 500 pages of 250x250mm, this is a collection of some of the most memorable photographs taken by National Geographic photographers. The text is written by one such photographer, [ read ]

Beyond Beauty
What is ‘beauty’ in landscape photography? On the face of it, it’s almost a question that doesn’t even need to be asked. We all know intuitively what a beautiful landscape looks like, don’t we? But is it so intuitive? And [ 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