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An Audience of Character
For my lightning talk at the On Landscape Meeting of Minds conference, I considered how my images of water were evolving and I talked not just about using the water’s surface as a canvas, but about loosening the knots of representational landscape photography. more
Yes We Can
Encouraging female photographers to get ‘out there’ on their own at the more ‘unsociable hours’ of the day or night – and experience the immense photographic and personal satisfaction in doing so! more
Surviving Summer
This series of articles is a follow-up to a session we ran at MOORSVIEW, to highlight some of the issues photographers needed to be aware of when heading out into the hills, beginning with Summer. more
On Landscape Conference Update
We have been busy sorting out the new speakers and exhibitors for the Meeting of Minds Conference this November. Ticket sales are going well with three quarters as many tickets sold already as we had for the whole of the conference in 2014! more
Welcome to the Edge
There is something to be said in landscape photography of the virtues of studying ‘the edge’ of things. more
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