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In decline
The melt from glaciers provides an even refill of water for creeks and rivers and keep their flow alive all year around. This has been taken for granted until now. Due to global warming, glaciers are shrinking, and so with a speed, we have never seen before. more
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Our 4x4 feature is a set of four mini landscape photography portfolios from our subscribers: Mick Thurman, Joseph Smith, Jonny Bell & Adam Pierzchala more
Looking at trees
The images here are from Virginia Water, part of Windsor Great Park near Staines. Although it is landscaped and managed, there are many wilder parts where once I am concentrating on my photography I forget how near I am to towns and motorways. more
Scots Pine Studies
This approach to subject and representation has been consistent in my work for some time now, incorporating the now much better-understood processes of in camera movement and multiple exposures. more
Joshua’s Rocks
The two most prominent features of Joshua Tree National Park are its trees and its rocks. more
On Reflection
Subject, as it is to the weather systems blowing in from the North Atlantic Ocean, and with its rugged topography, the North-West Highlands of Scotland, are best known for producing images a of tempestuous nature. more
Interview with Colin Homes
I caught up with Colin at the Flaubert gallery in Edinburgh where he currently has a 'retrospective' show which includes work from the last decade or more. more
Endframe: Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange
From 1935 t0 1944 the FSA ran a program of photography, hiring photographers to document the plight of poor farmers and migrant workers. Altogether, eleven photographers were hired for this project, but in particular Gordon Parks, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. more
Birch (Betula pendula)
The birch tree must be the most recognisable of our native trees. It’s silver bark makes it stand out from quite a distance and it’s shocking lemon and lime autumnal colours are as close as we brits get to the iconic aspens. more
Landscape Photography in the Death Zone
Alan's immense achievement of climbing all of the world's 8000m peaks obviously overshadows the fact that he took some photographs up there. more
Killing the Buddha
Far more important, in photography and any other expressive medium, is not how to use our tools but what we do with them, what we each find worthy of creating and expressing. more
Mat Robinson
The challenge of trying to distill a 3D scene into a 2D photograph while still retaining the feel and beauty of a place is one that keeps me, at least, very much more present in the moment than I might otherwise be. more
Dipping into the Landscape
I came upon landscape via a circuitous route. My main career for 25 years was as an author of young adult and children’s books including an eco-thriller titled Ravenwood with mile high trees and leaves the size of a human. The rights were bought by the publisher who signed J.K.Rowling and sold to 15 countries. I thought I had arrived. However, with each book in the series being 100k words, and with re-writes 250k, the virtual eco-system with its more
Between Land and Sea
It’s almost a year since I first received an email from Farley Farm House – Home of the Surrealists and the Lee Miller Archives, inviting me to exhibit my latest project “Between Land and Sea”. more
Photography and the Concept of Flow
In each of these moments you put your awareness at work the focused and lucid mind is recognising certain elements and situations coming together in not just a visually pleasing manner, but also in a conceptually eloquent manner. more