Perfection or Excellence?

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Why should I spent so much of my time chasing something that is not possible for me to achieve? Is it not better to chase something that can be achieved and measured? more →

Steve Gosling and the desire to touch…

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Two images then, one which calls for the viewer to reach out and stroke its softness whilst the other forbids any such interference. more →

Issue 146 PDF

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I’m not meaning to denigrate any particular competition or genre, a purely aesthetic ranking of photographs is not inherently bad in any way, but it can leave one with a desire for something extra. more →

Large Format Lenses – The Standards

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When people first try out large format photography and they come to the choice of lens for their first kit, they typically make a few common mistakes. more →

End frame: Pale Shelter by Mark Littlejohn

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Why am I drawn to it so much? I think the combination of the blizzard-like conditions, which produce a whiteout around the whole border of the image, added to the deep snow on the ground make for a truly beautiful winter scene. more →

Limestone Landscapes

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One rock stands out, to me, as just that little bit different, that little bit special – limestone. Limestone has a story to tell like no other, a story that spans the vastness of geological time and yet one that continues on a scale more comprehensible to humans. more →

Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios

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Our 4×4 feature is a set of 4 landscape photography portfolios from our subscribers: Fabrizio Marocchini, Harris Steinman, Paolo Berto & Richard Ellis more →

Sea and Structure

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I was brought up by the sea in a village protected from the ravages of the ocean by an extensive groyne structure. more →

Webinar, Joe Cornish & David Ward, 31st March, 8pm GMT

  We will be hosting an image critique webinar where David and Joe will talk about 3 of the other’s images on line. ‘Critique’ may be the wrong choice of words… but expect a lively debate on composition and why   Continue reading → more →

We’re Attending The Photography Show With Linhof Studio

We are getting ready for The Photography Show , 1st – 4th March, at NEC with a launch of an OnLandscape branded Lee filter kit with Linhof Studio. Andrew Nadolski and David Tolcher will be representing us on stand E50/51   Continue reading → more →

David Baker’s “Sea Fever” Exhibition

David Baker’s “Sea Fever” project has produced a wonderful book (reviewed in issue 69) and he is exhibiting the work at the Harbour Lights Cinema Gallery in Southampton over the next month (6th February to 4th March) Info We are   Continue reading → more →

Q&A Webinar with David Ward, 11th February, 8pm GMT

Q&A Webinar with David Ward Tuesday 11th February, 8pm GMT We are delighted to be running a live Q&A with David Ward. What’s your burning question? Whether your question is around composition, locations, publishing books, or anything else, this is   Continue reading → more →

Mountain Photography Weekend, 10 – 14th May 2014

In conjunction with the UK premiere of Terry Abraham’s film “Life of a Mountain – Scafell Pike” on Saturday 10th May, Cumbria’s Rheged Centre has teamed up with On Landscape to host a weekend exhibition on 10-11 May 2014 celebrating   Continue reading → more →

Blind Critique Webinar, Tuesday 28th January 2014, 8pm

Tuesday 28th January, 8pm, GMT Getting feedback on your photography is critical to your progression as a photographer. For most photographers this typically happens when they meet up with some friends on when they post images on Flickr but from   Continue reading → more →

Webinar with Doug Chinnery, Friday 29th November: ICM Image Processing

In the next issue of On Landscape we will be including a video taken when our editor spent an afternoon with Doug out in Clumber Park talking about ICM techniques. more →

Blind Critique Webinar, Thursday 21st November, 8pm

We’re starting a new On Landscape feature where we’ll be inviting photographers along to provide feedback on submitted photographs. Getting feedback on your photography is critical to your progression as a photographer. For most photographers this typically happens when they   Continue reading → more →

Scottish Nature Photography Awards

The entry deadline is approaching for the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2013, the annual photographic competition celebrating nature, wildlife and landscape photography in Scotland. The competition invites entries of images taken in Scotland by professional or amateur photographers from around   Continue reading → more →

Blind Critique Webinar with David Clapp, 7th November, 8pm

We’re starting a new On Landscape feature where we’ll be inviting photographers along to provide feedback on submitted photographs. Getting feedback on your photography is critical to your progression as a photographer. For most photographers this typically happens when they   Continue reading → more →

Urban Landscape Photographer Mike Curry Exhibition in Old Street @ Timberyard

Mike Curry teaches and lectures in landscape photography and each of the photographs in this collection has been taken whilst on the way to, or returning from, one of his photography classes. “I am delighted to be showing these recent   Continue reading → more →

Webinar with Doug Chinnery, Monday 30th September

In this hour long webinar we’ll be covering: Creative landscape photography ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) Multiple Exposures Demonstrating the techniques used in texturing images in Photoshop Doug Chinnery is a full-time professional teacher, writer and photographer specialising in leading digital   Continue reading → more →

Webinar with David Clapp

Join us on the 23rd July 8.30pm for a webinar with David Clapp. In his latest articles for On Landscape David talks through colour management using Lightroom and Photoshop. We’ll be looking at colour management issues plus other subjects in this hour   Continue reading → more →

Launch of Flickr Group

Today we have launched our Flickr group for OnLandscape readers to share and comment on photographs. Please do join the group and start uploading your Spring photos! more →

Jeremy Moore, Wales at Waters Edge Exhibition, Aberystwyth

Jeremy Moore will be exhibiting a selection of landscape photographs from the book ‘Wales at Waters Edge’. The book was published in collaboration with Jon Gower as the author. Jeremy said ‘The intention of this project was to illuminate both Wales   Continue reading → more →

Steven Donaldson Exhibition, Discovery Point, Dundee

Steven Donaldson will be exhibiting a selection of landscapes and seascapes, simply entitled “Light on Land and Sea”, in addition to photographs from his years working in the oil and gas industry. In Steven’s own words.. “Landscapes have been a passion   Continue reading → more →

Sam Jones exhibition, “Possession”, Tobermory

Sam Jones will be exhibiting some of here black and white images of the Isle of Mull at the “An Tobar” Arts Centre, Tobermory, 2 May – 28 June 2013. Who possesses this landscape? – The man who bought it   Continue reading → more →

Interview with Toshio Shibata

Toshio Shibata is currently being exhibited in the Landmark exhibition that we reviewed last issue and we thought you might be interested in an interview in Eyecurious magazine which you can read here. We’re currently waiting on delivery of a   Continue reading → more →

From our own Correspondent

Our roving reporter David Clapp has dropped us a line from Patagonia where he’s currently filming tutorial videos about the 6D camera for Canon Europe. Last Autumn David was producing a set of videos in the Lake District and the   Continue reading → more →

April 16th: Live Q&A with Joe Cornish & David Ward

On Tuesday 16th April, 7.30 – 8.30pm we will be running a live Q&A with Joe Cornish and David Ward on Facebook. Just join us online on Facebook at the right time and add your question to our wall and we’ll   Continue reading → more →

To & From Greenwich; Exhibition by Mike Curry

To and from Greenwich, an exhibition of photographs by Mike Curry. The Greenwich Gallery, Linear House, Peyton Place, Greenwich, London, SE10 8RS Runs up to 31st March. Mike commented “The initial appearance of the collection of photos in To and From Greenwich is   Continue reading → more →

Reports of my Death have been Greatly Exaggerated

Well Fujifilm have done it again – the announcement that Velvia 50 was being killed off last year caused much consternation (even to the point where the venerable David Ward took a Canon 1DX to Iceland!) and also much stockpiling.   Continue reading → more →

International Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition

The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) international environmental photographer of the year competition recognises photographers that bring awareness to environmental and social issues. Highlighting communities and ecosystems that are struggling with changing climates The exhibition runs from10th April   Continue reading → more →

Herbert Ponting’s Photos at the Chris Beetles

Over 60 photographs, taken from the legendary 1910 British Antarctic expedition, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. This will be the largest and most varied exhibition of Ponting prints ever staged in London. All are platinum prints, produced using the   Continue reading → more →

Landmark: The Fields of Photography

Venue: Somerset House, London. East Wing Galleries, East Wing. Terrace Rooms & Courtyard Rooms, South Wing Date: 14 March – 28 April 2013 Daily 10.00-18.00, Free admission This novel exhibition will be the first of its kind anywhere to show both the   Continue reading → more →

Joe Cornish talk at Folkestone

Co-director of On Landscape, highly esteemed landscape photographer and published author will be welcomed by Folkestone Camera Club, to give a lecture entitled, “The View Finder” on Saturday 11th May. Joe has been travelling recently and will be bringing fresh   Continue reading → more →

David Ward and Joe Cornish | Gower Workshop

We wouldn’t normally use the news to promote workshops and tours (although we may build a section for this in the future) but as the two leaders of this tour are two of our main writers (and a partner in   Continue reading → more →

Paul Kenny Exhibition: Seaworks

This exhibition is at The Watchtower Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed. It runs from Saturday 23rd February to Friday 22nd March, 2013. Opening reception Saturday 23rd February. Seaworks is a term Paul Kenny uses to define an ongoing body of work made on   Continue reading → more →

Put Your Questions to Hans Strand

We’re interviewing Hans Strand in a couple of days time and we’d like you to submit a few questions for us to ask. Just drop us an email, tweet or facebook post or add a comment to this news item. more →

Competition to Win a CamRanger (closed)

CamRanger is the only product that allows near complete wireless control of your Canon or Nikon DSLR directly from your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch. Competition now closed – winner to be announced next issue. more →

Novel Adapter for NEX

One of the problems with using full frame lenses on a cropped sensors is that your focal length is ‘increased’ by the same amount so if you use a ‘normal’ 50mm lens on a 1.6x crop sensor it becomes a   Continue reading → more →

Ansel Adams Afternoon Talks

The National Maritime Museum has organised an afternoon of talks in association with their current Ansel Adams exhibition. Entitled “Oceans, Landscapes and the Lens”, it brings together Michael Marten, Paul Gilson, Roshini Kempadoo and Harriet Hawkins plus experts on the sea   Continue reading → more →

New Images from Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna has posted a bunch of new images on his ‘recent images’ page, 44 in total drawn from his South Korean work that he was seen taking in the recent video preview we posted. Well worth a look.   more →

Seduced By Art – Photography Past and Present

So much going on in London at the moment so, if you get a chance, visit the Photography Past and Present exhibition at The National Gallery. The exhibition explores early photography from the mid-19th century and takes a provocative look   Continue reading → more →

Ansel Adams Landscape Photography Exhibition – From Mountains to the Sea

Don’t forget to visit the National Maritime Museum before 28th April 2013, for a chance to see over 100 original prints from this master of landscape photography. A chance to see his art from a fascinating new angle, for those of you   Continue reading → more →

Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape

There is a fascinating exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts that will be of interest to landscape photographers. David Ward feels that “Constable, Gainsborough and Turner virtually set the agenda for landscape and that their use of light and   Continue reading → more →

Michael Kenna Exhibition

If you are in London before the New Year (ends on 2nd January 2013) do have a look at Michael Kenna’s graphic monochrome landscapes at the Chris Beetle’s Fine Photographs gallery. David Ward reviews the exhibition in Issue 50, On   Continue reading → more →

Landscape Photography – Christmas Book List

What is on your Christmas present book list? We know there will be plenty of books (because there always are) so tell us which ones you would like to find in your Christmas stocking?   Or under the tree if   Continue reading → more →

Interview with Joe Cornish

Tim Parkin will be interviewing Joe Cornish mid December, what would you like to hear from Joe? Please let us know if you have any questions you would like Tim to ask or if there are any topics you would   Continue reading → more →

Frank Gohlke Interview

Terrain magazine have an interview with author and photographer Frank Gohlke (Wikipedia). Gohlke always has something interesting to say and you can read another interview at the Smithsonian magazine and a video interview on You Tube of the accommodating nature exhibition. /via Terrain.org more →

Artist or Photographer

Mike Johnston writes on the words photographer and artist and suggests that a key aspect is that of limiting the exposure of ones images. Well worth a read. He mentions the idea of our photographs not being truly ‘ours’ until   Continue reading → more →

Petrochemical America – Richard Misrach

The photo-eye blog looks at a new book by Richard Misrach and Kate Orff that looks at the ecological effects of the industry. The interesting aspect is that this is a fusion of social research and social documentary landscape photography   Continue reading → more →

John Irvine Solo Photography Exhibition

Full time dad, police officer and keen landscape photographer John Irvine is holding a landscape photography exhibition showing images from the West Lothian area, the East Lothian coastline, the Trossachs and NW Scotland. Dates: 15th & 16th December 2012 Open: 10am   Continue reading → more →

Taking a Landscape Photograph : National Media Museum

A series of videos from the National Media Museum’s video channel on Vimeo interviewing some contemporary landscape/social documentary luminaries such as Ian Beesley, Edmund Clark, John Davies, Simon Roberts. The final part of the video talks about the touring exhibitions but you   Continue reading → more →

Ireland’s Coast – Carsten Krieger

Ireland based landscape and nature photographer Carsten Krieger is proud to announce the launch of his new book “Ireland’s Coast”. Almost 4 years of traveling around the island of Ireland, by car, boat and foot, has produced a stunning collection   Continue reading → more →

First tests start to appear of Sony’s revolutionary RX1

One of the most interesting cameras to be unveiled at Photokina was the Sony RX1. It could certainly be labeled as revolutionary rather than evolutionary. Featuring a fixed 35mm Zeiss F/2 lens it is the smallest full frame 35mm camera   Continue reading → more →

Sustaining a Long Term Photography Project

“Writer Edgar Allen Beam asked Leshko: What have you learned from the success of Elderly Animals that might help other photographers with long-term projects? Her advice applies to so many photographers struggling with their long-term, personal series that we wanted   Continue reading → more →

Poppit Sands books by Michael Jackson

A new series of books called ‘Returning Home’ to accompany the Poppit Sands work. Michael Jackson lives and works in South Wales – 30 minutes away from Poppit Sands beach in Pembrokeshire. His work at Poppit Sands is a continual   Continue reading → more →

A New Michael Kenna Video

Michael Kenna has a new video in the works entitled “Letter from Shinan”. I get the feeling it’s going to be Korean only marketed but should get an import I imagine. Looks interesting. Click on the image below (of a   Continue reading → more →

Squaring the Circle

Living in the dark forests of the Swedish Småland, Shagbagboy (Gustav Sandstedt) creates beautiful circular images and has built a website from his instagram feed that shows them off in a novel and visually refreshing way. Click on the image below to visit   Continue reading → more →

Hyper Arid Landscapes

For the past fifteen years, National Geographic photographer, George Steinmetz, has been photographing many of the world’s “hyperarid” regions as part of an upcoming book, called Desert Air. A video /via Faded and Blurred more →

Testing 24-70s – An Alternative Method

Courtesy of colleagues from the states we have a youtube video from Bammo and Weapons of Mass Production that really shows how lens test should be done. We can’t recommend the final elimination round though! http://bammonation.com/pick-dslr-lens-womp/ via the Land Photo   Continue reading → more →

Will landscape photographers soon be making models not pictures?

In what is approaching the realms of science fiction the world’s first 3D printing photo booth is set to open for a limited time in Harajuku, Japan. From November 24 to January 14, 2013, people with reservations can go and   Continue reading → more →

NPR Discuss What Landscape Means

The NPR (National Public Radio) website has a brief article discussing the current zeitgeist in landscape photography. Triggered by a thought provoking article on Flak Photo called “Looking at the Land”. They ask a few people about including Alison Nordstrom,   Continue reading → more →

Matt Malloy creates Composite Landscapes

Matt Malloy of Ontario, Canada has managed to combine the current trend of timelapse photography with the possibilities that Photoshop provides and has created something fairly new. Taking bits of the images from each frame of the timelapse he builds   Continue reading → more →

Nikon D800 – the landscape photographer’s Dslr?

It could be that the D800 is the end of the current MF back system     We’ve seen a lot of cameras come and go in the last few years and only a few have been real game changers.   Continue reading → more →

Perfection or Excellence?

Why should I spent so much of my time chasing something that is not possible for me to achieve? Is it not better to chase something that can be achieved and measured? more →

Steve Gosling and the desire to touch…

Two images then, one which calls for the viewer to reach out and stroke its softness whilst the other forbids any such interference. more →

Issue 146 PDF

I’m not meaning to denigrate any particular competition or genre, a purely aesthetic ranking of photographs is not inherently bad in any way, but it can leave one with a desire for something extra. more →

Large Format Lenses – The Standards

When people first try out large format photography and they come to the choice of lens for their first kit, they typically make a few common mistakes. more →

End frame: Pale Shelter by Mark Littlejohn

Why am I drawn to it so much? I think the combination of the blizzard-like conditions, which produce a whiteout around the whole border of the image, added to the deep snow on the ground make for a truly beautiful winter scene. more →

Limestone Landscapes

One rock stands out, to me, as just that little bit different, that little bit special – limestone. Limestone has a story to tell like no other, a story that spans the vastness of geological time and yet one that continues on a scale more comprehensible to humans. more →

Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios

Our 4×4 feature is a set of 4 landscape photography portfolios from our subscribers: Fabrizio Marocchini, Harris Steinman, Paolo Berto & Richard Ellis more →

Sea and Structure

I was brought up by the sea in a village protected from the ravages of the ocean by an extensive groyne structure. more →

Similarities

This series is titled “Somiglianze” (similarities): I have approached different images, linked by visual analogies. more →

Fire / Unseen

These images are of the residual marks left by water receding from the shoreline – an area of the conjunction of a river with the sea. more →

Asturias

Asturias, wild land, a thousand faces between the high-carved cliffs that look at the ocean and play with it. A walk in early June, when the spring gives way to summer timidly bursting. more →

Geoff Woods

The image is very important, it must have feeling, and it must speak for you when you’re not there. A picture must say a thousand words as they say. more →

Exhibition 2

Ian Cameron and I have joined forces for our second shared exhibition. There is no ‘theme’ as such to the exhibition as it is a selection of the work we have produced individually over the last two years. more →

Chalk Hills White Horses

A surprise to find the words when photographing the White Horses and Hill figures in Southern England. more →

Issue 145 PDF

The art of cameraless photography dates back to the very discovery of photography and cyanotypes, in particular, have an illustrious history. more →

Photographing the Peak District

I’m not particularly knowledgeable about the Peak District’s viewpoints so I wanted to see how these met my own understanding of the locations. more →