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David Clapp
We visited David Clapp a couple of weeks ago and spent a day wandering around the lakes. When we woke on the Sunday to some atrocious weather we decided it would be a good opportunity to interview David about his recent activities, the reasons for him being in the lakes and about what he'll be doing for On Landscape over the next year. First though a few pictures that are referenced in the video. In the middle of the video more
Take a View winner – “Condemned”
Take a View winner - "Condemned" The following is an interview with Simon Butterworth recorded the weekend that he had heard about his win in the Take a View competition. Well I had heard about the urban category that was a surprise in itself, that I was really chuffed about. I received an email whilst I was up in Perth photographing the autumn colours; so that was more
Mývatn
Iceland is a land being torn apart. Straddling the mid-Atlantic ridge, the divide between two tectonic plates being forced asunder, its volcanic landscape is growing by centimetres every day. Unlike Scotland, which has some of the oldest geology on earth, Iceland, only 500 miles north west has some of the youngest. It is a land where fire meets ice, and heat meets arctic cold; in places it feels primordial like a protoplanet in a new solar system. Active volcanoes more
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012
Venue: Natural History Museum, London: October 19, 2012 to March 13 2013. Later on tour to UK and other venues across the world. Currently on show at London’s Natural History Museum are one hundred winning and commended photos from the 2012 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. These have been selected from over 48,000 entries by a panel chaired by US photographer and environmentalist, Jim Brandenburg. Introductory words describe this year’s exhibition as a “spectacular showcase” of “the magnificent” and “the intimate” more
Frank Hurley’s Antarctic
Frank Hurley (1885-1962) was an Australian photographer. This short note aims to show some of his beautiful work primarily from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition between 1914-1917, and to explore how he managed to make such emotive and exceptional images, as well as the immense challenges he faced and how he might have overcome these. This isn’t an attempt to review his life or work more broadly. I’ve used a number of quotes from relevant diaries; these might break more
Unsworth Exhibition at the Ruskin Museum
We've feature David and Angie Unsworth in a previous couple of articles, one as featured photographers and also an interview with David about his work and influences. They also have a book of their photography, A Landscape for the Imagination. David and Angie now have an exhibition of their work at the Brantwood, former home and museum for John Ruskin. We talked to both David more
The Landscape Photographer of the Year
This year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year competition not only drew some great photographic entries but also raised some controversy. I wrote about this controversy at length on my blog but the length of the article by the time we had all of the updates and comments got a bit out of hand for more than a cursory glance. So, for the benefit of those who didn’t hear about it, what was the controversy? Well initially it was raised by more
Be Prepared
hat preparedness can relate to physical parameters (being in the “right place at the right time”) or to heightened visual receptiveness or to a combination of both – whatever works for you! more
The Future of Landscape Photography
The phone rings. It is Mr P, chief finance officer (and every other officer) of the On Landscape Corporation… "How about a piece on the future of Landscape Photography?" Tim suggested brightly. "Hmmm, great idea, I'd love to read something on that. Obviously a job for the Professor (David Ward)." "He's off to Tasmania so you'll have to do it. Oh yes, and I am going online with the redesign of the magazine monday so it needs to be in before then. more
Misty morning in Bolehill Quarry
Whilst on holiday in Derbyshire Joe had managed to tempt Dav out of bed early one morning at the beginning of Autumn on the promise of mist in Bolehill Quarry. The mist duly arrived and after Dav had playfully chastised Joe for getting to the rendezvous early to take a sneaky vista they headed of into the Quarry chasing the mist. For Joe this was relatively new territory, for Dav you might say this was his home patch. Why more
Bridge of Orchy, Argyll and Bute
Ok, that title may be a little outrageous, however on the right day, in the right conditions, this part of the world is truly remarkable for us photographers. Based on the A82 at the Southern edge of the Scottish Highlands, the bridge acts as a junction for two particular points of photograph interest. To the right of the bridge is Loch Tulla. A sweeping loch near to Black Mount, popular for its access by road and beautiful forest to more
Social Media versus Photography
Social media! It’s one of those things that has now become a part of day-to-day life for everyone and for a photographer it is no exception. Back when I started learning photography things where very different; For example, we respected our lecturers talents because of the time they put into each shoot from loading film through to the dark room processes. Nowadays it seems that everyone on social media sites has a friend who can do it cheaper with more
Among Trees – Iain Sarjeant
Following the opening of my solo exhibition ‘Among Trees’ near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands last week, Tim asked me to write a small piece about my exhibition experiences. Although I have exhibited many times in group shows over the years, this is my first experience of mounting a solo show, and presenting a body of work. I have always been drawn to photograph trees, and ‘Among Trees’ was the first series that I worked on, changing the way I more
Andris Apse
Andris Apse originally came to my attention through his inclusion in the seminal ‘World’s Top Landscape Photographers’ (a pivotal book for me, despite it’s weak points). His image of Breaksea Sound, Fiordland being of particular dramatic note. Since then I had not heard much about him but it was when Alex Nail mentioned him in our Featured Photographer section and then more recently Phil Malpas that I thought I should try to get hold of a book or two. [s2If more
Mixing to a Reference
The title of this article will mean very little to most photographers unless they have had a parallel life as a studio engineer. If they have they will recognise the well known mastering process of listening to a favourite, well produced song whilst making corrections to a new song that they are currently working on. The mastering process is the final step of taking the finished product from the studio and making tweaks to prepare it for radio, vinyl, more