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Art and Flow in Photography
There is no doubt in my mind that practising photography with the attitudes and conditions conducive to flow—making it deliberately difficult, challenging, stretching one’s abilities and imagination, requiring prolonged focused engagement and consuming as much attention as one can muster—can make photography as rewarding to an artist as any other pursuit practiced with the same mindset. more
Simon Butterworth
Simon has given us a delightfully concise bio, so I’ll add a little. His images have been widely published; he has had success in high profile competitions including the Sony World Photography Awards, the International Photography Awards and the UK’s Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition more
I never expected that
It is this process of going back to Yew Tree Tarn many times and allowing myself to see the same trees, the same grasslands and experience the transition of the seasons, that firmly placed seeds in my mind that gradually germinated and flourished into latent photographs. more
Passing Through – Margaret Soraya
In this podcast, Margaret talks about her exhibition and what she finds in the quietness and solitude of the islands that keeps pulling her back. more
Carrara
The quarries have left a profound impression on me. They undoubtedly reinforce many questions on a wide range of issues including beauty, greed, consumerism, society, environment and personal responsibility. more
Landscape and the Picturesque
It’s interesting to analyse the mood that pictures create, the feelings they inspire, and to link that back to the decisions the photographer must have made at the moment of making the image. more
Norway Trip Report
During our last Meeting of Minds conference, one of our regular visitors, Trym Ivar Bergsmo, said to us “Would you like to come and stay with us in Norway sometime and allow me to show you around?” As both Charlotte and I are more of the cold climes holidaymakers rather than the beach and cocktails sort, this caught our interest immediately but in the frantic conference conditions, it slipped our minds. We checked that Trym was still amenable more
End frame: Zbyszko Siemaszko – Untitled (sygn. nr. 51-687-30)
We’re faced with a street well populated by people and vehicles, soaked in the pouring rain. Moreover, taken in a black and white which betrays the photograph’s analogue origins and its age. more
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
This issue our 4x4 landscape photography portfolio feature are from subscribers: Chris Cullen, James Popp, Paul Hetzel & Sérgio Conceição more
Intimate Suffolk Landscapes
These photographs represent an attempt to switch away from my ‘go to’ mode of photography (coastal landscapes, usually wide angle / tilt-shift) to more challenging monochrome work in more complex inland environments, using longer focal lengths. more
Kettle Moraine State Forest Conifers
I have been photographing in the Northern Kettle Moraine State Forest in Wisconsin for a number of years. One feature of the forest is a number of planted conifer woods that were put in as part of reforestation in the last century. more
Similar Shapes
Nature blesses us with a diverse assortment of photographic possibilities. Sometimes, the effects of wind and water on totally different landforms create landscapes looking remarkably similar. I was struck with this paradox while reviewing images taken of wheat fields in the Palouse located in Eastern Washington state and the dunes and eroded soil found in Death Valley. more
Memories of Portugal
The fourth image was taken at Alandroal, Alentejo in Portugal and you can see how drought hit a dam, where it let a tree appear that was submerged in water. more
Quest for Calm
The content of the image i.e. the arrangement of the visual elements could be compared to the words chosen to form sentences, while the tone in which they are uttered similar to the tones we select for rendering our images. more
Creative Photography
For me, it is not about the location as much as interpreting the scene in front of you and looking around for more unusual details in order to convey your emotion and vision. more