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...may not appear to be obvious companions, especially as I only took up photography in 2008 when it became impossible for me to walk any distance due to severe osteoarthritis. I was inspired by greetings cards and calendars by Joe Cornish and Colin Prior, thinking I could take images like that! However, as a geographer and walker, I have a...
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...desire to develop my photography are many but to name a few books in particular, Dav Thomas ‘With Trees’, Colin Prior ‘High Light’, Marc Wilson ‘The Stand’ and all the work in LPOTY and SLPOTY books. Most recently though one book has stood head and shoulders above the rest in inspiration and it is ‘This Land’ by Joe Cornish &...
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...it was a shock just how vibrant the final picture ended up. Tim Parkin Returning to the Yorkshire Moors a few years later with Joe Cornish we made the most of the elevation from the top of our transport to capture one of the reasons that the tops of the moors make such great driving country. Tim Parkin Let’s back...
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...the Story?, 14.00 Colin will be using his work from Holme Fell, Thirlmere and Delamere Forest to talk about how the landscape reveals the narrative of its history and regeneration. He will talk about how to create photographs that embrace imperfection and reflect the sense of place and not just a location. Read more Sunday JOE CORNISH The Life...
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...these conditions would well prove fatal. But Alan was a photographer before he was a climber and this experience stood him in good stead. Joe Cornish and Tim Parkin will be chatting with Alan about these experiences accompanied by some of the best of 35mm film photographs that were recently drum scanned for his best-selling book. GREEN ROOM INTERVIEW Alan...
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...The peaks, swirling clouds and mystique of the World’s most iconic summits, once stripped back in B&W, adds intrigue and mystery; something that can inspire us all. Being a lad from the North East England, one of my earliest inspirations was Joe Cornish and his wonderful portrayal of Roseberry Topping and the North Yorkshire Moors. To this day, I keep...
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...we blame? The weather gods? Cruel beings who toy with us, sometimes tantalising us with photographic wonder, more often than not turning off the lights on their way out. We could blame other photographers, the likes of Joe Cornish, Mark Littlejohn and Guy Tal who so obviously have their own weather systems which follow them around, over which they seemingly...
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Once Upon a Time, before the internet and Amazon, there were bookshops that specialised in Photo books, and the best of these was Beyond Words in Edinburgh. Neil McIlwraith still runs Beyond Words as an excellent online service; nevertheless, it is hard not to feel a sense of loss for the sheer indulgent pleasure of browsing in a place devoted...
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...Argentum or Arum. These houses need us to have a real ‘name’ with a massive following, like Joe Cornish, Charlie Waite or Michael Kenna. They produce large hard bound books and have to print in volume, so a large market has to be there for the investment to be made. The photographer also has to have a very large portfolio...
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I fell in love with both photography and the polar regions on my first expedition to Antarctica from New Zealand in 2010. Before my return trip from Argentina in February 2017, I devoured Joe Cornish's article and video in On Landscape! South Georgia was probably the most beautiful place we visited. I have chosen a letterbox format to emphasise the...
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