Giving Chance a Chance
Hans-Ludwig Beinsen-Ruf | Posted
This approach has helped me to free myself from the limitations described above and to continue my photographic activity with renewed enthusiasm. more
This approach has helped me to free myself from the limitations described above and to continue my photographic activity with renewed enthusiasm. more
In April 2016, Peter's exhibition "Echos of the Great War " opened at Weston Park in Sheffield and marked 100 years since the Battle of the Somme. Peter’s Great Uncle William Wyatt Bagshawe fought and died in the Somme and through retracing the footsteps of his great uncle, he took black and white photographs as the land as it is now. Suggesting the terrain of the frontline through details and abstractions. more
The moment the opportunity arose where I was able to visit Yosemite, I grabbed it with both hands and seized the chance. There was something about the place that had enticed me for decades, namely the work of Ansel Adams that had me transfixed to his books in a college library at the age of sixteen whilst working as a photography student. more
This ethereal vision, the muffled sound of autumn and raindrops, of the wind in the leaves, gave off a sense of absolute peace, the same feeling that I constantly look for in my photographic experiences, among the same landscapes projected in this reality. more
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This image on the cover of the book The Unpainted South caught my eye in a book shop in South Carolina in April 2019. more
This issue our 4x4 landscape photography portfolio features are from subscribers: Alexandra Wesche, Gill Moon, Guy Washburn & John Maillard. more
As the months passed, I must have looked at thousands of trees. In the endeavour to find the ones that gave me a tug. more
The gradual lifting of lockdown and the turbulence of the current political climate has allowed and driven me to wander about the old fields and woodlands of my neighbouring town of Concord, Massachusetts to visit some old friends. more
Some wild places have the power to captivate all who visit them, not because they have unrivalled views or superior scenery but because they instil in the visitor a sense of wonder and awe. Staverton Thicks in Suffolk is one such place. more
During the lockdown in May I had to do a professional trip to Amsterdam and I took the chance to spend a few days at the North Sea. It was surprisingly and thankfully quite deserted. more
As the months passed, I must have looked at thousands of trees. In the endeavour to find the ones that gave me a tug. more
Edward Weston wrote in his Daybooks, “If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.” In the literal sense, Weston was wrong. more
Dara’s documentary series ‘Project Cleansweep’ takes its name from a 2011 Ministry of Defence report on the risk of residual contamination at 14 UK sites used in the manufacture, storage and disposal of chemical and biological weapons. more
During the spring 2020 lockdown, I had the opportunity to explore some of the more remote parts of the watershed of the Eden, on Mallerstang Edge to the East and Swarth Fell, Wild Board Fell and Little Fell to the West. more
Just before the New Year, Joe David and I recorded a podcast on the concept of "Truth to Nature". It's an idea that has its seeds in the romantic era of landscape painting when John Ruskin, a massively influential art critic and artist of the time, encouraged painters to closely observe the landscape and in doing so capture the natural world as truthfully as possible. The idea then has its echoes in an essay "A Plea for Straight Photography" more
on The Trees in my Photographs
Thank you for sharing these very personal experiences and this wonderful series of photographs. Your photos are always full of subtle and ethereal beauty and speak to me very much.
- Alexandra Wesche, 18:54 17th Janon Lockdown Podcast #10
Oh, and one minor clarification. The photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima was not a reenactment. But it was of the second flag raising, so there was some time for planning. The operations commander felt the first flag was too small, so he sent a detachment [...]
- Timothy Floyd, 01:21 13th Jan
on Lockdown Podcast #10
Great discussion on a topic of interest to me. I don't make a living off my landscape photography, but I do post to my website and other sites, and I enter competitions for sport. It would be very difficult to define which digital tools are allowed in landscape photography [...]
- Timothy Floyd, 09:03 12th Jan