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Musical Secrets…
I attended a workshop held at Woodford Folk Festival (December 2002) where a panel of musicians revealed their methods for unleashing their creativity, when they find a creative block. On reflection I found their advice was accurate for me as a visual artist, which I was able to apply to my own creative endeavour of taking photographs. more
Ghosts
When I do have an afternoon to myself the weather rarely plays ball, which is how two years ago my Highgate Woods project came about. more
A Field, A Lane, A Wood
A recent self help trend for those suffering stress has been mindfulness. A method where by concentrating and focusing all of your attention in on yourself and the process of breathing and other bodily sensations you are able to fully relax by blocking out negative thought. If you can take the time to assess exactly how you are feeling as you make images you should find, as I do, that you will have entered a very similar state. more
Wide Open Landscape
Robin Jones came to my attention with a series of photographs taken with an old Canon lens, nearly all wide open, and presented in a soft black and white look. The images stood out from my usual stream and as I had just started using a similar lens we got chatting a little - I was interested in finding out more and Robin was happy to help - Tim Parkin The Jones family settled in Cambridgeshire after my father decided more
One Direction
For some reason landscape photographers, including myself, tend to spend way to much time trying to find the extraordinary. The urge is often to find a place where we can take a photograph with a “wow factor”. more
Go Your Own Way
The national parks have a rich history of photography and in fact the first national parks owe a great debt to early landscape photographers for their very existence. more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques “Chinesischer Turm, Englischer Garten”
Christopher Thomas’s images work in a different way. They focus on absence rather than presence. Their emotional power seeps rather than bursts onto the viewer. more
Time Exposed
In our search for perfection, however defined, we seek to be in the right place, at the right time, & to trip the shutter at the right moment. We strive to craft an image just so – to show the landscape at its best, in the right light. more
Finding the Individual
Every time I read an article that advocates individuality in photography I let out a silent cheer. more
Thomas Peck’s Critiques – Ice seal
Many photographic images are illustrative. They present the viewer with whatever is in front of the camera. more
Recording of Live Streaming 14th July
In this live streaming event, Tim chatted with David Ward about his recent travels (including New Zealand, US and Scotland). 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
Houston, We Have a Problem…
Following the recent Meeting of Minds conference, photographer and blogger Malcolm Ragget’s posted his personal summation of the weekend. (http://mraggett.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/onlandscape-conference-craft-versus-art/) David Ward - Eggum Boatshed In a thought-provoking article, Malcolm calls for landscape photographers to broaden their horizons and consider metaphor as a key ingredient of a good photograph. Toward the end of the post he makes a plea for “…delegates to think more deeply more
Its Not Grim Up North
Photography has inextricably intertwined with my life for nearly 40 years. I am not a photographer in the sense that I make my living out of it nor am I an artist but have used the medium to further enjoy outdoor pursuits and to scratch a technical itch with regards to cameras and technology. Photography was also a very necessary escape from a demanding career. Like any ‘craft’ I have learned how to make my images work, importantly knowing more
On Vision… Part 1
Hopefully, you can now begin to understand some of the correspondences and differences between human vision and the photographic image. more