Tim Parkin

Chelsea Flower Show – An Outdoor Gallery

David Anthony Hall is an Irish landscape photographer specialising in very large prints, mostly panoramas, of groups of trees (although this is not all he does). He has recently worked with a garden designer to produce an outdoor garden exhibition   [ read ]

Paul Mitchell

Paul Mitchell has been on my personal radar for quite a while since seeing his quadruptych(?) of pictures from Covehithe in Suffolk. Since then I’ve come to appreciate the range of styles and subject that he works with. Yes he’s   [ read ]

Camera Competition

We get a few people saying that Great British Landscapes is a little ‘Film biased’ and so to try to balance things up a bit, we’re holding a competition to ask people to suggest their favourite digital photographers. Everyone who   [ read ]

With Landscape in Mind

Last week my wife and I accompanied Joe Cornish to a small cinema in Hyde Park, Leeds. Despite the strong temptation, we weren’t going to see ‘Kung Fu Panda 3D’ and definitely not ‘Hangover 2′. This was ‘Joe Cornish 1′   [ read ]

Ektar 100 versus Velvia 100F

I spent a few days on the north Cornish coast in March and chanced upon a really good week. In fact perhaps too good as the weather was mainly of very hazy sunshine and even foggy evenings. This led me   [ read ]

Light, Composition or Subject?

I’ve read a few times in the past months that ‘light’ is always the most important thing in photography. Every time I read this I’ve felt a little more uncomfortable. This week a colleague pointed out another occurence in the   [ read ]

Mirrors Messages Manifestations – Minor White

Minor White only really had one major publication of his own in his lifetime. Mirrors Messages Manfiestations was published in 1968 and is a strange work. A combination of spiritual guide book, artist catalog, diary extracts and poetry it is   [ read ]

Minor White

Some photographers have an extended influence far beyond their public notoriety. Minor White epitomises these individuals. His work in analysing and teaching photography created a whole host of ‘followers’ and in some cases ‘acolytes’ and his writing still inspires today,   [ read ]

Landscape Photography and Book Publishing

The purpose of this article is to consider some aspects of working with a book publisher as it pertains to landscape photography. The themes of the article will be based around a recent publication of my own called ‘Mull, Iona,   [ read ]

Joe Cornish in Black and White

After our article on black and white last in the last issue we thought it would be topical to take a look at some of Joe Cornish’s black and white photography. This brought up a few nice surprises along the   [ read ]