Join the conversation
Subcribe to comment rss feed
Interview with Karen Thurman
Tim Parkin: Hi Karen, where are you based then? Karen Thurman: Luton TP: Not a renowned landscape location KT: No, but one of our ‘On Your Doorstep’ locations. One of the ones we’ve already done. TP: And what do you find to photograph on your doorstep? KT: Same thing we photograph around all our ‘On Your Doorstep’ locations - parks, woodlands, etc. TP: Interesting as I was talking to Niall Benvie about his 20/20 imaging projects and conservation photography groups. He deals with more
Caroline Fraser
Caroline Fraser’s images from New Zealand have made some think she hails from down under, so an interview with her is a good chance to clear this up (she lives in Sussex). more
Softly Does it
While I was in the process of learning to photograph the landscape (and still am!) I was intrigued by a comment from a fellow photographer that when the light was soft and flat it was details weather. I fully understand that details work really well under soft lighting conditions but what was wrong with trying to shoot a vista in soft, flat light? The British Isles’ weather systems more
Building Your Own Gallery
When we looked into moving house a few years ago, one of the criteria I had was that it had to have some outbuildings. I had all sorts of ambitious ideas about a large studio or gallery, even a teaching space where I could run processing workshops. Financial reality then set in and I set my sights a little lower, thinking in terms of a small studio-cum-gallery, but somewhere where, potentially, I could set up still life and macro scenes. Our new house more
Uncommon Ground by Dominick Tyler
This is a bit of a departure for my usual book purchasing, it's more in line with a dictionary or encyclopedia than a photography book but I think it's definitely of interest to those with a passion for the landscape. The basic premise of the book is a journey through some of the less well known words for the landscape features of the British Isles. Dominick grew tired of describing more
Endframe – “Yellow Sea, Cheju, 1992” by Hiroshi Sugimoto
I have not given much thought to horizon lines for a long time. Indeed, I have not given much thought to straight lines in general for a long time. Living in the heart of the Lakeland fells as we do, or did, straight lines do not feature in the landscape very much and where they do occur they seem an unwelcome intrusion on our sensibilities; inevitably man made and symbolic of our disregard, even fear, of nature’s organic more
Interview with Michéla Griffith
Michéla is a contributor to On Landscape (click to see her other articles), interviewing many featured photographers for the publication and she has just launched an exhibition at the Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton. Tim caught up with Michéla to talk to her about the exhibition and the project behind it. https://youtu.be/4CKTZihkfgg TP: You have an exhibition starting today (6th June) and this is the preview. Tell us a little bit about the exhibition itself MG: It’s more
Alpine studies in Shoes of the Past Masters
Since ancient times, the practical necessity to immortalise images of people and events was the driving force for visual art. Famous artists usually painted landscapes in a mean time between elaborating more important portraits, while landscape-dedicated painters (Claude Lorrain, Jacob van Ruisdael, John Constable, Alexandre Calame, Albert Bierstadt,… ) were not the mainstream in the beaux arts. The advent of photography in the 19th century not only scaled up portraiture, but also facilitated technique for landscape works. Ansel Adams, being on more
Landscape Collective UK Exhibition
The Landscape Collective UK consists of 14 landscape photographers and we meet every two months in a meeting room at the end of the Cobb at Lyme Regis in Dorset. We're quite a diverse group and we show printed work and discuss landscape photography and catch up on projects, experiments, and locations. Mother Ivey’s Bay - Andy Bell The group's work has appeared more
Greg Whitton
Can you tell me a little about your education, childhood passions, early exposure to photography and vocation? I had an unconventional upbringing as I was a 'forces brat', my dad was in the Army. I didn't live in mainland UK until I was 15 when he was finally posted back to blighty. We lived mainly in Germany with a couple of years in Hong Kong. Holidays tended to partially involve the Alps more
In Sympathy with the Landscape: the photographic pastoral
In a previous article we looked at Alan Hinkes’s photographic depiction of the Sublime. High up in the Himalaya, in the death zone, Hinkes photographed awe-inspiring landscapes, where man was insignificant and puny in the face of massive and indifferent nature. Hinkes, whether consciously or not, was tapping into an artistic genre. In the 17th and 18th centuries artists had deliberately sought to capture the emotional impact that particularly mountain landscapes had created in the viewer. The exhilaration more
The Slow Interview with photographer Eliot Dudik
I was most interested in the idea of war, our current cultural and political standings that have been shoved down our collective throats and seem to be leading toward inevitable disaster. more
Max A Rush Exhibition, Horniman Museum, London
Atmospheric photographs of some of south London’s most beautiful parks, green spaces and natural areas are to go on display at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in Forest Hill. The Height of Summer Taken by London-based landscape photographer Max A Rush (who we featured in a previous issue -Brockwell Park -a year in Landscape Photographs), the collection entitled South London Landscapes is on display more
The Photographer’s Guide to …
Location guides are funny things. The mainstream magazines include them in nearly every issue and they typically include a photo, a low resolution map and a short ‘story’ about the location which will usually include “I nearly left and then the clouds parted”, etc. Alternatively we have some of the in depth guides I have made in the past which include multiple 360 interactive views and maps and sample images. Both ends are useful but at the ‘short’ end more
Sigma 35mm Art
One of the things I was wary of when starting On Landscape was including too many reviews. There are so many reviews out there already that adding a few more ‘yeah this looks quite good, 92%’ posts wouldn’t really contribute a lot. However, I did get a lot of people asking for my opinion on various items, from cameras and lenses to tripods and raw converters and when I feel I’ve had something to add beyond what is already more