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End Frame: “The Barn” by Selden B Hill
Miles Flint chooses one of his favourite images
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Alexandra Wesche, Gill Moon, Guy Washburn & John Maillard
Watchers of the Forest
A local photography project
Opportunity Cost
Do You Know What You’re Missing?
Dara McGrath
Featured Photographer
On the Edges of Mallerstang
A lockdown perambulation around the watershed of the upper Eden valley
Lockdown Podcast #10
Truth to Nature
Dale King – Portrait of a Photographer
A passion for local haunts reveals the subtle changes through the seasons
The Fröttmaninger Heide
A constant dialogue between nature and humanity

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Tim Parkin

Well, that’s 2020 done, what could possibly go wrong in the first few days of 2021? We’ve had a spell of amazing cold weather and blue sky days in the Highlands of Scotland that’s coincided with the start of a full lockdown, which is about the perfect way to annoy the whole landscape photography population of the UK (well, at least those that don’t live in the Lakes, Highlands or Snowdonia). A few guilty days of wintery bliss and then it was back to work on the magazine. We’ve got lots of plans for things in the New Year for On Landscape including the completion of the “Photography Office” which is just having a darkroom added to it. We also have some plans for a possible book project which we’ll reveal later in the year.

For now, though, it’s back to (relatively) normal. We’re hoping for a windy day to do some stability testing of the tripods we still have and we’re also going to be checking out a couple of lenses that Sigma have nicely loaned to us. The first is an f/1.2 35mm which I’ll be looking at under the question “are massive apertures useful for the landscape photographer”. The other is a 14-24 ultra-wide, which will be a big change for me as I don’t think I’ve used a lens wider than 24mm for the last decade (the occasional panorama excepted).

If you’ve any idea for articles you’d like to see us cover in the New Year, please drop us a line!

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Issue 222 PDF

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End Frame: “The Barn” by Selden B Hill

This image on the cover of the book The Unpainted South caught my eye in a book shop in South Carolina in April 2019. more

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Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios

This issue our 4x4 landscape photography portfolio features are from subscribers: Alexandra Wesche, Gill Moon, Guy Washburn & John Maillard. more

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Watchers of the Forest

As the months passed, I must have looked at thousands of trees. In the endeavour to find the ones that gave me a tug. more

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Opportunity Cost

Edward Weston wrote in his Daybooks, “If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.” In the literal sense, Weston was wrong. more

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Dara McGrath

Dara’s documentary series ‘Project Cleansweep’ takes its name from a 2011 Ministry of Defence report on the risk of residual contamination at 14 UK sites used in the manufacture, storage and disposal of chemical and biological weapons. more

Afternoon Haze, Looking west from Swarth Fell to the Howgills
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On the Edges of Mallerstang

During the spring 2020 lockdown, I had the opportunity to explore some of the more remote parts of the watershed of the Eden, on Mallerstang Edge to the East and Swarth Fell, Wild Board Fell and Little Fell to the West. more

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Lockdown Podcast #10

Just before the New Year, Joe David and I recorded a podcast on the concept of "Truth to Nature". It's an idea that has its seeds in the romantic era of landscape painting when John Ruskin, a massively influential art critic and artist of the time, encouraged painters to closely observe the landscape and in doing so capture the natural world as truthfully as possible. The idea then has its echoes in an essay "A Plea for Straight Photography" more

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Dale King – Portrait of a Photographer

Have you ever noticed that when you look at the work of some photographers, you instantly know that they have a connection to a place as an artist? more

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The Fröttmaninger Heide

There is a constant dialogue between nature and humanity, a constant shift between two worlds that are separated yet together in an odd way. more

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