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End frame: Rùm Sunrise, Inner Hebrides by Joe Cornish
Graham Nobles chooses one of his favourite images
Existence Precedes Essence
To elevate one’s living experience
Only When I Dream
A group exhibition at the Coningsby Gallery in London
Still Waters
Living by the shores of Loch Ness
Ski-ing the John Muir Trail
Documenting a trip of a life time
La Divina Foresta Spessa e Viva
Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Tim Parkin

One of my own personal ways of creating what I think are ‘more interesting’ landscape photographs is to become more interested in the landscape I’m photographing. Whether this is learning about the plants and animals that live there, about the history of the land and how we use it or about the very ground and rocks beneath our feet. This spring, I met a geology professor when walking off Ben Nevis and he (David Dobson) talked about a series of geology walks he was planning to run in the Highlands. I expressed an interest in attending and, later in the year, he said he’d like to take me on a test walk near Ben Nevis to see how they would go. I eagerly agreed.

The day was spent walking from Glen Nevis up to Stob Ban, taking detours to check out various geological features. To learn about how the rocks beneath our feet are formed, how they are shaped over millions of years all the way up to the quite recent ice ages that carved out our crags and glens, was fascinating. I felt like a child again, being able to pick up random bits of interesting rock and asking “What’s this then?” or “Why does it look like this?”. The story that built up changed my appreciation for the landscape I was walking on, and it opened up many more avenues of exploration. Although what I learned may not directly make my photographs more interesting, the knowledge will inevitably affect what I want to include or exclude, subdue or prioritise in my images and hence make the images more personal to me. If they also trigger a viewer’s curiosity about what I’ve photographed, even better!

Hopefully, David Dobson will be writing an article for On Landscape in the near future, which I’m really looking forward to. You can participate in one of his upcoming geology walks, which will be advertised on his website here. David also has a YouTube channel called “One Minute Geology” where he summarises aspects of UK geology.

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Rumsunrise Joe Cornish
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End frame: Rùm Sunrise, Inner Hebrides by Joe Cornish

Rùm’s soaring profile catching the warm light just after sunrise was crying out to be photographed, and I assume Joe knew about this particular wave-cut platform on the Isle of Eigg and that it would one day make a useful foreground. more

Temporal Eddies
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Existence Precedes Essence

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment that he is thrown into the world he is responsible for everything else he does.~ Jean-Paul Sartre One might expect that the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard (a devout Christian) and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (famous for asserting that God is dead) more

Ted Leeming.road To Nowhere
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Only When I Dream

Only When I Dream is a group exhibition curated by Beth Taubner and Andrew Coningsby, opening August 30, 2022, at the Coningsby Gallery in Fitzrovia, London. more

Loch Ness Margaret Soraya 1 3
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Still Waters

Loch Ness is one of the largest lochs in Scotland, and mostly, it is windy and often grey. But when conditions are good, there is no better place. Early mornings in the winter are generally when I find these incredible pockets of peace. more

Muir Hut Sunset
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Ski-ing the John Muir Trail

During the winter of 1979, my friend Jim Keating and I skied the John Muir Trail from Mount Whitney to Yosemite Valley. The 211-mile-long trip took us 33 days. more

La Divina Foresta Spessa E Viva
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La Divina Foresta Spessa e Viva

Extending to about 900 hectares, the pinewood of Classe (RA) is directly mentioned in Dante’s Divine Comedy (Purgatorio XXVIII, v20). more

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