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Issue 345
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End frame: The Frozen Swan by Fortunato Gatto
Andrea Celli hooses one of his favourite images
Lightroom Insights
Episode One
Trym Ivar Bergsmo
Remembering
Joy Kachina
Featured Photographer
Abby Raeder – Portrait of a Photographer
Photography as Contemplation, Intuition, and Self-Discovery
Mystery
The un-answerable question posed by some element or elements in the image
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The start of 2026 has been meteorologically indecisive, storms and rain punctuated by the occasional moment of grace. We had the aurora (which you saw in the previous issue), and then a few properly cold mornings that felt like winter finally remembering its job.
One of those mornings began with Charlotte heading out for her usual early swim. Shortly afterwards, my phone buzzed with a message telling me, in no uncertain terms, that I needed to get down to the loch immediately. It was frozen half an inch thick where she’d entered the water (in a swimsuit! Mad, I tell you! Bonkers!).
I drove over towards Kinlochleven, to a stretch where the water is more brackish than salty. The tide was falling and the entire loch had turned to slush, with thin sheets of ice balanced delicately on rocks and seaweed as far as I could see. The scene had a delicate fragility, as if the view might collapse if you breathed too loudly.
I was really grateful for the tilt adapter and Nikon lenses I mentioned earlier. Being able to lay the plane of focus across the ice made all the difference, pulling sharpness exactly where I wanted it. I spent a couple of hours wandering the shoreline, carefully plotting each step to avoid cracking ice that might later wander into the background of a frame, or worse, scattering broken fragments into an otherwise clean composition.
One of the images is shown below, and I suspect another will find its way into my 365 in the next issue. Oh, and Charlotte came back with cuts and scrapes where she collided with sheets of ice while swimming, as if I need more evidence of insanity!
Tim Parkin
Issue 345
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End frame: The Frozen Swan by Fortunato Gatto
Let creativity be the true driving force that transforms landscape and natural elements into art—not only for the photographer, but for each of us, rediscovering our personal ability to dream and interpret when confronted with such images. more
Lightroom Insights
The last time Joe Cornish and I met up we were talking about Lightroom and how much it had changed since our original 'Creative Lightroom' series covering techniques and post processing creativity. We quickly worked out that it was in 2014, over a decade ago! After lots of comparing notes on the different techniques that we now use that just didn't exist then, we decided it would be a good series to resurrect. In order not to just more
Trym Ivar Bergsmo
I don’t know if anything can be worthy of summarising a life, but I know I can describe the small part where our spheres collided for a while and ask some friends for a few words. more
Joy Kachina
During my time with the Ciders, I often found myself deeply moved, sometimes to the point of tears, without understanding why. Later, after speaking with a Palawa elder, I gained a clearer understanding. more
Abby Raeder – Portrait of a Photographer
Before we ever speak about technique, location, or even subject matter, there are quieter questions that deserve to be asked. What does it mean to really see, not just to look, but to feel a place as it drifts through memory and emotion? Where does perception end and imagination begin? And what happens when photography becomes less about recording the world and more about entering into a state of attention that feels closer to dreaming than documenting? more
Mystery
A sense of mystery is a quality I strive to include in my imagery. In writing a rhetorical question provides interest and depth, in photography mystery is the rhetorical question. An unanswerable question is a powerful source of interest. Mystery in a photograph is the un-answerable question posed by some element or elements in the image. The answer to that question, however, is only what the imagination of the viewer suggests and then often only in a subliminal manner. more