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Noise Reduction
As noisy as our world is today, it is likely to get noisier still in the years ahead. Merchants of noise—those who profit from noise—are no longer just minor inconveniences, they are enormously powerful media machines. more
Edweard Muybridge
It’s hard to write a short review of Muybridge’s life without sounding like one of Tom Sawyer’s exaggerated stories more
Escaping Oblivion
The emotional and psychological uplifting, the mental elevation you will feel when you find that true connection with your subject is far superior to the ephemeral appraisal of a well-constructed image that will be forgotten in the oblivion most photographers live in today. more
Lockdown Podcast #8
A short podcast this time as a few of you groaned at the amount of time you had to listen to us waffle for so this issue it's a thirty-minute dip into three topics. more
Alex Nail
I simply find that taking on more difficult tasks helps me to find value in what I do. Particularly in the sub-genre, I am in of ‘classic grand landscape photography’. more
Close to home
I live in a place where the scenery makes it almost impossible to take a bad photograph and so, I finally did some stern self-admonishing and made a deliberate effort to try and see the village differently and shoot nearer home. more
Portrait of a Photographer – TJ Thorne
The ones that seem as though they were photographed in cold conditions somehow make me feel calm and at peace with the world. more
One day ~ Time in landscape photography
That morning provided me with over two hours of snap shooting interrupted by some instances of contemplation. As a result, a series of 15 photos taken in a silence only broken by the stir of a distant breeze. more
End frame: Clear stream edged with maples, by Shinzo Maeda
Clear stream edged with maples reminds the viewer that we are a part of the natural order of things, and it is our most solemn duty to care for the treasures of nature with which we have been blessed. more
Photo Book Making
A handmade book can be a beautiful and tangible embodiment of the passion, love and enthusiasm we have for our landscapes and how we choose to present them more
Lost and Found, an interview with Kimberly Schneider
We got an email from Kimberly at the beginning of June to say she’d set up her darkroom again and started experiment with photograms. more
The Intimate Landscape
The intimate landscape maybe that place in landscape photography where we can justly claim our medium is a form of visual poetry. more
Eadweard Muybridge and the River of Shadows
This issue we have another instalment in our Lockdown book club, although I suppose we have to come up with a new name for it as we’re mostly out of lockdown now. Anyways, this issue David Ward and I will be looking at a book about the life and era of American photographer, Edweard Muybridge by Rebecca Solnit. more
Greg Russell
To achieve lofty goals - or even modest ones - in wilderness preservation, we need time. The next generation will surely be critical in these efforts (and I hope highly critical of our own efforts!). All wilderness preservation comes down to two of the rarest human virtues: humility and restraint. more
A Scottish Winter Journey
It was a great journey with all sorts of weather and light and I learned a lot from it. I am pretty sure this will not be my last winter in Scotland. more