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End Frame: Wyoming, Train and Car, 1954 by Elliott Erwitt
Nick Joyner chooses one of his favourite images
Altered Landscape
Our insatiable appetite for earth’s resources
Folly Pond
A perfect anti-icon
Learning from Others
Finding Value in the Natural World
Passing Through – Paul Gallagher & Michael Pilkington
In Another Light - A Book of Infra-Red Landscapes
Peter Henry Emerson
Naturalistic photography as art (and science)
Benjamin Graham
Featured Photographer
Celebrating Wilderness Photographer Philip Hyde
Acknowledging Our Roots
Phases
Reconciling Our Earlier Work

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Viewpoint Editor’s Letter editor@onlandscape.co.uk
Tim Parkin

You can’t help but look at the fires in the West of the US and wonder at what the future will bring if the world continues to warm. We’ve seen pyrocumulus clouds punching through the troposphere, the deserts ablaze and the orange night glow in San Francisco looking like a warning from a dystopian science fiction film. The sad thing is that this is happening over the globe and forests are burning that can’t recover such as rainforest regions of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

There is very little that we as photographers can do apart from bear witness to these events and show the public what is being lost, however painful that might be. William Neill writes in this current issue about Philip Hyde and his actions as an environmentalist and it’s important that we see that the actions we can take as individuals aren’t about winning single battles.

There will be no real end to the pressures on the environment and we need to keep an opposing pressure in place to preserve as much as we can and make people aware of what might be lost. Ultimately, change can only happen politically and although, as we have seen from photographers such as Philip Hyde, Peter Dombrovskis, Eliot Porter, etc. The power of a strong image at the right time can work wonders, we also need to appreciate and support the small organisations and individuals that dedicate their lives to helping care for the land we love, whether local or global.

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Wyoming, Train and Car, 1954-Elliott Erwitt
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End Frame: Wyoming, Train and Car, 1954 by Elliott Erwitt

The first thing that draws my attention is the billowing smoke from the locomotive, then the locomotive itself, and the line of freight cars seemingly stretching to the mountains. more

Joe Cornish - Strath_Conon clear Cut
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Altered Landscape

Altered landscapes are a brutal fact of the world around us. They speak of our insatiable appetite for earth’s resources and are a warning of what might happen if we continue the unchecked development and globalisation strategy of the last decades. more

Andy Holliman - FollyPond-3
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Folly Pond

Folly Pond is a small pond, about 100 feet long, situated on the edge of Blackheath, South London. It was believed to have originally been a gravel pit, then was used as a watering place for horses travelling along the main road that passes close by. more

Murray Livingston - Sandstone Cliffs Fynbos Tree
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Learning from Others

Being in "lockdown" (or quarantine, whatever you decide to call it), has created lots of time to reflect on the photographic practice of other photographers who inspire me. more

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Passing Through – Paul Gallagher & Michael Pilkington

We spoke with Paul Gallagher a few weeks back and he teased us with some infra-red images then, suggesting a book he'd been working on with Michael Pilkington about Infra-Red. We couldn't miss this as some of the work I had been shown was up there with the best IR I'd seen. more

Rime Crystals, from Marsh Leaves, 1895
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Peter Henry Emerson

Emerson is now well-known as one of the foremost 19th Century photographers, particularly in his pictures of rural Norfolk and Suffolk2, many of which show people working in the landscape. more

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Benjamin Graham

Nothing like a near-death experience to focus the mind, eh? And so began my period of de-stressing, downscaling and of simplification in my existence. And of the uptake of photography as a second career. more

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Celebrating Wilderness Photographer Philip Hyde

Although the photographic world has changed dramatically since Phil was pioneering conservation photography, the great need for vigilance, activism and the sharing of our photographs to inspire others has not. more

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Phases

Continual growth and development as a product of the evolution of vision is a constant among all serious photographers and artists in general. However, there is a difference between evolution of vision and “finding” one’s vision. more

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