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Dealing with Cold Weather
The following are a compilation of notes made during phone calls, emails and general conversation made over the last week. We start with the man who has arguably been out photographing in Britains coldest ever weather - a minus 29 degrees in Moray last year. more
Ad-hoc Reverse ND Graduated Filters
With a few different combinations, we can create hard strip filters and reverse grads of various powers. more
Olympus EP1 versus Panasonic GF1
I was an early adopter of the m4/3rds ‘compact’ system buying a Panasonic GF-1 with 20mm lens pretty much as soon as they became available. It promised so much. more
Secret Affair
At just over 1000ft high and with no particularly defined peak visible from a distance Beinn Lora is a fairly unremarkable hill to look at. more
Hindsight – Cairngorms
In this Hindsight Joe Cornish talks about three pictures taken in the Cairngorms for Scotland's Mountains. more
Lake District, Mountain Landscape
Alistair Lee is primarily a climber but has been carrying a camera since his early outings more
Jan Tove
Jan Tove is a bit of an enigma in the UK; A photographer of no small talent who has inspired a great many more people than his British profile more
Landscape Beyond
A debate almost as old as photography is whether we take or make photographs. I've always felt strongly that we make images, that it is a creative act. more
Where have the Berries gone?
I have two pictures to show you, not the most scientific of comparisons, but it’s enough to show an aspect of digital photography more
Reflections on Autumn
The season has been a wet one too with frequent spells of stormy weather often lasting for days on end. more
A Skye Log
It’s an obsession, I admit it, even the giants of Torridon and the beautiful mountains of the far North West can’t drag me away from the Isle of Skye. more
Aspect Ratios – Part 1
For photographers of a certain (ahem) age, the aspect ratio of 35mm film, 24mm x 36mm (ie 2x3), was fed to us like mother’s milk. more
On Landscape Launch!
ASBO Allstar - Flickr As I had mentioned in the news from the previous issue, Joe and I gave a interactive session at the National Media Museum on the 16th of October as part of the Photocamp project. The talk was ostensibly about film and digital but we quickly meandered around a few different topics as questions were asked from the audience. I'll come back to more
High Light – Colin Prior
This is a must buy for anyone with a passion for the British mountains or landscape photography. more
What’s up with the Histogram?
I think most of us who use digital cameras (and that must include 95% of film users as well, with their little digital playthings) have looked at a histogram. more