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Endframe – “Iberia Quarries #3” by Edward Burtynsky
Once Upon a Time, before the internet and Amazon, there were bookshops that specialised in Photo books, and the best of these was Beyond Words in Edinburgh. Neil McIlwraith still runs Beyond Words as an excellent online service; nevertheless, it is hard not to feel a sense of loss for the sheer indulgent pleasure of browsing in a place devoted to the photographic image. On my last visit to (the analogue?) Beyond Words I acquired Edward Burtynsky’s book, more
Endframe – “Low Hows Wood” by Joe Wright
The customary introduction to an End Frame article is to write about how difficult it is to choose a single image that has been inspirational in one’s photographic development. I’ve read those introductions myself and thought: “come on, how hard can it be?” Turns out the answer to that is “very”! My task is maybe somewhat easier by the fact that I’m not a very well read photographer. By which I mean that I don’t have a vast knowledge of more
Cross Country Skiing in Arctic Sweden with the Fuji X-E2
Last year I wrote about my experiences cross country skiing in Norway’s Rondane National Park using a Fujifilm compact camera system - at that time I was using the X-E1 and X-M1, with the 18-55mm and 55-200mm zoom lenses attached. A year on, I again found myself enjoying a fabulous few days skiing with my husband, Rob - this time in Abisko in Arctic Sweden. Abisko had long been on our radar because it is the start of the more
Lens Quality and Testing
Tim Parkin and David Ward overran the predicted hour long discussion on the ins and outs of lens quality and testing but with such a lot of ground our listeners supported our flagrant ignorance of temporal limitations. With lenses costing so much itís pretty important to make the right purchasing decision but how can we do this without trying all of the possibilities out ourselves. Well there more
Martyn Lucas
This issue we have Bolton born Martyn Lucas and his pretty spectacular arctic, antarctic and sub-arctic work. Can you tell me a little about your education, childhood passions, early exposure to photography and vocation? Individually and together, my parents educated me about right and wrong, ignited my passion for creating images, introduced me to walking for long periods of time, and were in essence my guardians and my friend. You see I grew up as an only child in Bolton, Lancashire. more
Endframe – “The Start” by Brian Kerr
I remember the first time that I got up early with a camera to photograph the sun rise over Ullswater. It was the 23rd of February 2010 and I’d bought my first SLR camera, a Pentax K-X, about three weeks before. Up until this point I was firmly a happy snapping hillwalker who had treated himself to an upgrade from his old Canon compact. I went to Aira Point and shot back into the rising sun. The colour was more
Endframe – “On Being Aware of Nature” by Mario Giacomelli
It can be of no surprise that Mario Giacomelli is generally regarded as one of Italy's greatest photographers. Born in 1925 he took his first photographs at 25 and won a national photography competition a year later. From then on he moved from subject to subject - a hospice, an abattoir, trainee Catholic priests playing in the snow - and, of course, his landscape. My chosen image is from a series that he worked on from 1977 more
Endframe – “Jim Jim Falls” by Peter Jarver
The year was 1988 and I was living in Sydney with my wife and kids enjoying a 2 year overseas assignment to Australia. I was a hardened B&W photographer for all except the natural history work that I did. I had never been especially inspired by colour landscape work. Looking back it is easy to forget that this was before the time when Waite/Cornish/Noton rainmakers changed popular landscape photography in the 90’s. It was largely documentary and quite literal more
Cath Waters
I’ve been enjoying her images for a while, which sit somewhere between landscape photography and digital art. more
Keith Craven
Many of us are behind the camera through choice, but sometimes events conspire to bring us out into the light. more
Mark Littlejohn – Landscape Photographer of the Year
Take a View's Landscape Photographer of the Year was announced yesterday and it was great to be able to announce that Mark Littlejohn had won the top place. His image of the side of Beinn Fhada is beautiful and just the sort of high quality photograph we'd hoped would win. And Mark couldn't be any more deserving. Despite only starting photography a few years ago he has produced a stunning array of images, mainly from the Lake District and more
End Frame – “Stalking Tiger in the Osaka Zoo” by Shosuke Yamaguchi
The images that appeal most to me now leave something to the imagination. They paint an impression more
Tom McLaughlan
Look beyond the pattern and colour of Tom McLaughlan’s abstracted buildings and structures and you will find something organic. more
John Finney
John Finney creates atmospheric landscape images – misty mornings, trees and villages lost in the fog, valleys and hillsides draped in cloud and punctuated by piercing light - frequently dynamic views in which weather is a major element. more
Zero Footprint
The Zero Footprint project, explained in a nutshell, is a series of landscape photographs captured from one single location over a period of five years, and counting. The restriction is purely geographical – roughly one square metre of the patio outside our kitchen, we could use any camera and lens combination and had the entire (not insubstantial) vista as a palette. The one other stipulation was that each image should be aesthetically pleasing in it’s own right, as well more