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Issue 329
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End frame: Wild Dusk Watchers by Dan Harnett
Annemarie Hoogwoud hooses one of her favourite images
William Nourse – Portrait of a Photographer
Lines of Fragility: Abstraction in a Changing World
Daragh Muldowney
Featured Photographer
Should landscape photography always please us?
How great and vulnerable the world can be
Les Bisses du Valais
The Varied Character and Light
The moment I said it
My meeting with the Orsay Museum bookstore
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In the editorial for issue 326, I wrote about the environmental damage that some rogue visitors can cause when visiting the region where we live. I mentioned various incidents where visitors had chopped down trees, and events this week bring this to mind again.
A social media influencer and a couple of his acolytes were discovered camping in Glen Brittle by Adrian Trendall, a mountain guide and photographer from the Isle of Skye. Alongside their camp were various plastic bags, glass bottles, discarded rubbish and a large firepit with the end of a large birch tree sitting within. And when I say large, it was easily 15 foot tall.
Adrian woke them up and gave them a few thoughts and told them to clean it all up before he came back down from taking a client up on the Cuiilin. The influencer (August Vallat - also known as the Outdoor Ginger) and his mates dumped some rubbish into a few bushes, the tree down a gully and managed to annoy a bunch of locals, loudly complaining about their treatment. You can read more about the incident here and here.
Any Questions podcast with James McGurk, Ranger for the National Trust for Scotland
We wanted to know what it was like to work for an organisation that has responsibility for one of these areas, which is both a beautiful landscape loved by photographers but also a target for social media influencers, some of whom have little thought for their impact.
Fortunately, we have a guest on our next Any Questions podcast who can help shed some light on these issues. James McGurk works as a ranger for the National Trust for Scotland, covering the Glencoe area.
It will be really interesting to hear what he says about the impact of different types of visitors and what we, as photographers, might be able to do to help.
If you have any questions for James, please send them to submissions@onlandscape.co.uk before Monday 23rd of June and we’ll put them to him.
Read about some of James’s work, and the Glencoe National Nature Reserve here, here and here.
Tim Parkin
Issue 329
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End frame: Wild Dusk Watchers by Dan Harnett
What strikes me immediately is how these ordinary natural elements have been transformed into something extraordinary and evocative, and finally into a piece of art. more
William Nourse – Portrait of a Photographer
In the fjords of Chile, somewhere between Ushuaia and Puntas Arenas, I watched William Nourse lean over the edge of our sailboat, not to capture the looming cliffs or moody skies like the rest of us, but to photograph chunks of ice slicing across the Starboard of our boat: small, graphic details most of us ignored without a second glance. Later, when I saw the image, it felt more
Daragh Muldowney
Although he stumbled into photography through a love of outdoor activities, the two feed and reinvigorate each other. He has a particular passion for working in projects, often contemplating cold places and in so doing, their fragility. more
Should landscape photography always please us?
I discovered that I am often more fascinated by pictures that I don’t immediately recognize or understand—no ‘celebration of recognition’. Or I wonder why the photographer made this picture, and I am caught by the question, ‘What is it?’ more
Les Bisses du Valais
God the Father, on a visit to the Valais in the company of St. Peter, offered the Valaisans who complained about the retreat of the glaciers and the aridity of their climate, to take care of the problem of water if they wished. St. Peter saw that the locals were hesitating, and encouraged them to accept the offer, telling them that God himself was a Valaisan. Was it this remark that got them thinking? In any case, they declined more
The moment I said it
Despite the struggle for recognition, this should not discourage your desire to create. For the joy you experience through artistic creation is what truly matters, regardless of the judgment of others. more