

Over the last two years On Landscape have accumulated a back catalogue of nearly four hundred articles. The following page shows these articles grouped by category and you can click on each category to get a full list.
editorial
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What Is Real?
The Curse of Habitual Seeing and Re-Presentation
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The Devil’s Dictionary
A Cynic’s Wordbook of Photography
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When Time, and Trees, Stood Still
Constrained, deprived of work, limited to local movement
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The Plain
An interview with Melanie Friend
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Creativity and Personality
Openness to Experience, Introversion and Genetic Predisposition
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The Cost of Convenience
Can Technology Hinder Creativity?
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Landscape Photography and the Meaning of Life
Forging and Expressing Meaningful Connections
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Cleveland Hills, Winter Storm
The evolution of a photograph
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The Natural Landscape Photography Awards
Why another photography competition?
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Don’t Destroy the Cypress Swamp Experience!
Style Matters - Kayaks, not motorboats
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Poetic Odds
Toward subjective expression and away from objective realism
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Opportunity Cost
Do You Know What You’re Missing?
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Photography: An Art Born of Science
The Conception of Reproduction
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Paul Wakefield
Resolved, yet unresolved. Inherent mystery and contradiction
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The Landscape of Memory
The lens of recollection
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Not According to Plan…
The story behind Poverty Flats
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10 Years of On Landscape
Looking back on past articles
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Abstraction in Photography
The Willing Suspension of Recognition
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A Summons to Seriousness
Engaging in Desirable Difficulties
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The Metaphoric Landscape
The power of metaphor resides in the imagination of the individual
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On Staying Inspired
A moment fully appreciated is a moment fully lived
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Altered Landscape
Our insatiable appetite for earth’s resources
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Peter Henry Emerson
Naturalistic photography as art (and science)
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Celebrating Wilderness Photographer Philip Hyde
Acknowledging Our Roots
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Phases
Reconciling Our Earlier Work
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On Photographic Technology
If you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road
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A Cairngorms Learning Curve
An 'Arctic' Safari in the Highlands
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Landscape as Habitat
Photographing a Home in the Wild
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A Last Interview with Richard White
Photos from a Tour around Scotland
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Noise Reduction
Claim Your Own Quiet Space Within
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Portrait of a Photographer – TJ Thorne
Healing his soul through the craft of nature photography
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Photo Book Making
The Final Piece of the Creative Process
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Lost and Found, an interview with Kimberly Schneider
Traditional Processes and Adapting to a changing world
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The Intimate Landscape
Focussing on Detail and Texture
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Phone Photos
The modern flibbertygibbet
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Tragedies of the Landscape Commons
The risk to the welfare of shared natural landscapes
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The Post-Processing Debate, Part II
Where do we go from here?
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Landscape and the Philosophers of Photography
The Battle for the Informative Image
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Shooting in the Dark
A Revolution
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Motivations in Landscape Photography
Fail until you get it right—by your own judgement
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The Illusion of Reality
Individualisation and subjectivation
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Jack of All Trades
Land upon a different way of seeing
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Three Rocks, The Butt of Lewis
Winner of Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year competition 2019
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The Sublime Landscape
The awesome power, and beauty, of nature
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The Way We Were
Am I the person I want to be here?
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Love Dandelions
Encouraging local sustainability
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The Value of Things
A path to self-expression
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The Path Towards Expression – part 3
Case Study “Septentrio”
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The Post-Processing Debate, Part I:
One Century After the Struggle Between Pictorialism and Group f.64
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Meaning, C19 and the Voice Within Our Landscapes
Re-evaluating our approach
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Photographing Rocks
Nature and photography in times of social distancing
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Iconic Landscape
Attempting to make unfamiliar pictures of familiar subjects
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Listening to the Arctic
A unique landscape is being lost from the face of the Earth
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The hidden value of the humble peat bog
Yorkshire’s peatlands
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Living a Visual Life
An interview with Guy Tal
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The Meaning of a Life
Our unique perspectives, personal and beyond judgement
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Geographic Landscapes
Photography as 'Earth Description'
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Meeting of Minds Conference Update
Announcing 3 more speakers
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The Path Towards Expression – part 2
Personal and expressive photography
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Why did you take it?
A change of perspective
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Living Lightly in a Consumerist Industry
The balance between being well equipped and sustainable
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The Path Towards Expression
Unlearning the learnt
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A Different Viewpoint
Photography on the Ullswater Steamers
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Fotospeed Fine Art Paper Review
What’s the practical difference between these papers?
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Why Monochrome?
Len muses over why he is so attracted to monochromatic photography
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7 Principles to Reduce the Individual & Collective Impact of Nature Photography on Wild Places
The Nature First Photography Initiative
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Looking for Landscape Photography
Ontological Minestrone
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Behind the Photograph
An interview with Charlie Waite
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Art and Flow in Photography
Finding the Zone
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I never expected that
Going back to Yew Tree Tarn
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Quest for Calm
What constitutes a therapeutic image?
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Interview with Greg Stewart of Kozu Books
Insights into the production of photo books
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An exploration of Brian Eno’s ‘Ambient 4 : On Land’
Insights into the locations behind the music
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Monochromatic Lens
Len’s Simplified System
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Creation by Passing Ducks and The Representation of Reality
Images as Experiences rather than Equivalences
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Beyond Equivalence
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should create art
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Graeme Green
Featured Photographer
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The Uninvited Guest
The voice that says “you can’t” when clearly you most certainly can
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It’s Time We Were Critical
Critic, Critical, Criticism and Critique
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Lyme Disease
A Public Service Announcement!
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What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting
Train yourself to find value in the process
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Reclaimed
The ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia
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Deception by Realism
Objectivity, Reality, Truth and Art
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Meaning: You Get to Decide
Make images for any reason you wish
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Remnants on the High Plains
Resilient to the years of abandonment
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Letting go of Truth
Creative expressionism
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The Dunes at Oceano
A less well known location with an interesting history
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Ditching Graduated Filters
Making the case for a “gradless” capture process
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A Question of Meaning
The Search For Meaning and Expression in Our Work
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The restorative effects of landscape photography
The immersive experience of being in nature
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Time to reflect…
Returning to my Photographic Roots
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Varieties of Experience
Reframing our stories
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Why are neutral density graduated filters so popular?
Getting things ‘right’ in camera
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The quests of landscape photography
What is your motivation?
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Skye – Away from the Madding Crowds
A Bank Holiday on Skye? Are we mad?!
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Time and Photography
Taking a look at the role Time plays in the still image
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Dispatches from the collapse
Our abject lack of preparation for what is to come
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Multiple Exposure, Layers, Textures ….. and all that Jazz
Different approaches to image making
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Photographic Pedagogy
The role of the teacher in photographic art
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Nick Stone
Featured Photographer
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A question of responsibility
Does being an outdoor photographer inevitably lead to environmentalism?
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Discovery and Rediscovery
Don’t be afraid
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Finding Flow through Mindfulness
The Practical Guide to the Zen of Creativity
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In Turner’s Footsteps
Taking Turner On Our Own Photographic Journey
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After All This Time
A personal connection
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Say Yes
Creates opportunities even when they are not obvious
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Photographing for Others
If I was the last person on the planet, would I still photograph?
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The Photo Book
A key medium to convey inspiration
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The Power of Transitions
Part II
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The Importance of Self-Critique
Learning To View Your Images Objectively
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Into the White Sands
Connecting with the essence of the place
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The Difference
Why Who You Are Matters In Photography
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A Visual and Tactile Adventure
An exchange of ideas
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Being There
A traverse of the mountain of the sun
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The Power of Transitions
Part I
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The Second Kind
On Photography and Freedom
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If No One Saw Your Photographs
or how to gauge success
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The Collaborative Photographer
The long chain of the photographic process
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Changing Perceptions in Landscape Photography
Adopting behaviours and strategies that support real stories about the landscape
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Landscape and Abstraction
Thoughts on the Subject of Landscape
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The Age of Neopictorialism
Current trends in landscape photography from a historical perspective
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What it meant to me
Developing emotional diversity
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Diamonds and Sand
The act of mindfulness in the landscape
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Meet Your DMN
How to hack your brain to become a better landscape photographer
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Limitations and constraints in photography
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations
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Tales of a Wandering Photographer
Abandonment
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Social Media and Photography
A Pause for Thought
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Giants of the Mystic forest
The Californian Redwood Forest
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Thoughts on Beauty
Are Aesthetic Principles Old Fashioned?
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Ethics in photography
Trust between photographer, subject and audience
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Ebb and Flow
Riding the Waves of Creative Energy
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The Collodion Artist
Why is Wet Plate Photography so Popular?
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A Look at the Resurgence of Wet Plate
The Hiking Collodionist
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A Fool’s Errand
The Futility of Looking for Vision
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Realism and Honesty in Photography
Feelings of Deception and Managing Expectations
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Liquid photography
the slow photography philosophy
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Photography, Chance and Solitude
A way of working
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The Humanless Condition
On Introversion, Solitude, and Photography
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From Realism to Abstraction
The interpretation of a place
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Photography as Performance Art
Metaphor making
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Shoshin
Beginning Again Every Time
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The Label
Language as a pitfall for the creative photographer
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The Anatomy of Grey
Subtlety is intriguing, contrast is commonplace
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Morality and Realism in Photography
Realism in photography is the exception, not the norm. We should treat it as such
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Romania Project Diary
The ebb and flow of the creative process.
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Creation vs. Production
The Autotelic Photographer
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The More Things Change
Tough Love on Visual Literacy and Proactive Creativity
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Aligning the Moral Compass
Our responsibility to post processing & image sharing
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Hot Places
Mixed Feelings of Iceland
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Finding Your Creative Voice
If you want to work on your art, work on your life
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An Interview with Charlie Waite
"Photography has become the new common language"
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Flow States and the Art of Consciousness Cycling
Being Conscious of the Subconscious
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It Depends
Divergent Thinking, Creativity, and Why You Should Care
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On Exhibitions
Reflections on Artistic Inspiration
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Yellow Mountains
Paul talks about his latest trip
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The National Trusts and Commercial Photography
The Responses to Last Years Enquiries
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Judging the Judges
Thoughts on Competition and Image Critique
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Interview with Ben Horne
Ben Responds to our Readers Questions
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Sharp but not Sharper
Matching Intent & Objective
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The Impact of Photography on Impressionism
The Impact of Impressionism on Photography
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The Myth of Control
A Case Study of the Rock Island Bend photograph by Peter Dombrovskis
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Personal Style
Define or Confine?
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The Making of Time
Interview with Rafael Rojas
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Humanising the Machine
Healing through making photographs
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Finding the forest when lost amongst the trees
Finding an emotional connection
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The Decaying Alps
Humanity’s Presence
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Limestone Landscapes
Flow & Time
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Chalk Hills White Horses
THE HILL FIGURES THROUGH SOUTHERN ENGLAND
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Beyond the Spectacular
Pushing the boundaries of what extraordinary is
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Pinhole Photography Follow Up
Putting it into Practise
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The Three-Dimensioned Life
Consideration in our creative choices
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After the Fire
The resilience of nature
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Compositional Controversies
Part 6: Depth and Flow
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In Praise of Film Pinhole Photography
Getting hooked
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Saturation by Saturation
The skill of subtlety in good post-processing
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Returning to Landscape Photography
Taking pictures of pleasure, not pain
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Planned Productions
And the Unplanned Experience
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Yan Preston – Mother River
Interview about Yangtze River Project
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A Change of Format
My first steps into the world of Medium Format Film Photography
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Hokkaido
Distilling the elements
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Layers
Deconstructing the image and using additional layers creatively
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Focusing The Manual Way
Making Explicit Focussing Decisions
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On Becoming
Live Your Questions Now
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Manmade Landscapes
A deeper message
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Desert Epiphany
An Appreciation of Harmony in the Landscape
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Wild Garlic
The Bluebell Alternative
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A Technique for Editing Your Photography…
Not just another task
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Photography and The Wonder of Life
A Meditation on Why I Photograph
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Why I love my iPhone for landscape photography
So why I must give it up
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The Death of Landscape Photography is greatly exaggerated
A provocative critique
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A look into Romania’s nature
An overview of a wild and spectacular country
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The Rise and Rise of the Photo-Book
An Overview of Contemporary Publishing
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Foreground First
A style evolving
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It Takes Two
Creatively Blending Ideas
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Bye, Bye Landscape Photography, Dear
Are the pioneering days over?
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The Path of Opportunity
Making Life Hard for Yourself
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Why not…?
Creating something other than an objective facsimile
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Life on the Ullswater Steamers
Uncovering New and Unknown Gems
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Don’t Forget To Take Your Soul
Listening to Your Inner Self
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Happiness, Creativity and Photography
Artists, Scientists & Thinkers on Happiness & Creativity
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The Curse of ‘Pre-Visualisation’
... and the Merits of an Open Mind
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Rowan Trees (Sorbus Aucuparia)
Majestic Kings of the Hills
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Planning vs Spontaneity
‘It’s behind you’ factor in photography
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Faces in the Canyon
Wetsuits and Pelicans in the Blue Mountains
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Distinctive Individuality
The Art of Differentiation
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First Steppes with 100 Megapixels
With Phase One in Mongolia
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Lee Acaster
Featured Photographer
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The Freedom of Constraints
Exploring Limitations & Creativity
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In decline
A homage to the solid state of water
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Birch
The Ruler of the Mountain
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Killing the Buddha
Expressing Yourself
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Photography and the Concept of Flow
Being in the moment
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Time
Len ponders the importance of time in his photography….
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Organising a Photo Laundry
Community Driven Pop Up Exhibitions
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Heather – Calluna Vulgaris
Purple Haze all in my Brain
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Laki
In the foot prints of the worst natural catastrophe in history
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Beyond The Spectacular Landscape
The move from images of something, to images about something
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Compositional Controversies
Part 5: Form and Void
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The Subtle World of Infra Red
Rediscovering an Old Flame
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Casualties of Progress
and the Death of Photography
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England and Nowhere
recent photographic project
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Urban Arctic
Modern mans presence in the high north
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Oriental Philosophy & Photography
Mystery is the fuel of both art and philosophy
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A Return to Waldeinsamkeit
Phil Hemsely talks about his feelings for Fernfire Wood
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The Art of Practice
Seeing beyond the camera
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Compositional Controversies
Part 4: Leading the Line (or, Following the Herd?)
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The Importance of Context
Trust and Freedom of Expression
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Black & White
The core DNA of photography
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The Unknown Room
Steps in the personal growth of the photographer
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Compositional Controversies
Part 3: Aspect Ratio Wars
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An Accidental Book Venture
From curiosity to business venture
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Luminous photographs
one of my favourite photographic secrets
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Rolling Stones, Norwegian Wood and some others
a homage to Eliot Porter
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Conflicts of Interest
A Personal Relationship with Wild Places
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Compositional Controversies
Part 2: Rule of Thirds
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Iceland from above
Making the impossible possible
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Looking back, looking forward
A first serious dip in the digital pool
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Looking for excellence
Advice for oneself
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An alternative view…
A look at what else is there
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The Perils of Social Photography
Guy Tal discusses the role of social media in the process of making images
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Mount Fitzroy
A boy dream which came true
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Art and Inspiration
A Confusion of Goals and Means?
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Polar Voyages
Joe Cornish Writes about his trips to the Arctic & Antarctic
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Abisko
My first hiking experience
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Has colour photography finally come of age?
A look at the history of colour photography and image manipulation
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When is a Cliché not a Cliché
Familiar Themes as the Grammar of Photography
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Healing
Holme Fell & Hodge Close Quarry
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The Pros and Cons of Clichés
Just what is a cliché and what is it doing to our photography?
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The Original Landscape Workshop
Remembering Fay Godwin & Paul Hill
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There’s no Art without…
The necessary preconditions for the creation of Art
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The Credit Crunch
Giving credit for our inspiration & the influences in our work
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Fields of the British Isles
Contemporary images that still reveal something of the historical landscape layers
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Journey of Photographic Discovery
Away from the familiar - to an unknown & unfrequented landscape
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Softly Does it
Soft Light Photography
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Not a Master
Pondering the "Artistic Master" in Photography
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Face to Face with the Sublime
Inspired by Alan Hinkes
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On Limitations and Creativity
Freedom comes at a cost..
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The Problem with Photography Journalism
It's Fine but is it Art?
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Taste and Landscape Photography
Using a Musical Analogy
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What is Landscape Photography …
.. and where might its boundaries lie?
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Overexposure
Guy Tal asks is too much bad for you
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Autumnal Notes
Transitions from Burnham Beeches
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The Path of Some Resistance
Guy Tal talks about being a better photographer through challenging yourself to be unique
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Zero Footprint
2009-2014
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Artistic Promiscuity
A Question of Influence
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Respect
Walk Softly and Leave no Trace?
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Tripod Wars: Time for a Ceasefire?
A View from the Other Side
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Indecisive? Moi?!
Ansel Adams, only human after all..
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Judging Competitions
Tim shares recent experiences in judging competitions to help improve your hit rate
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On Creativity – Pt 2
Part 2: Getting in the Flow…
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Exhibition Planning Part 3
Final instalment of Tim's journey to his first exhibition
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Changing Landscapes?
A Look at the History of Landscape Photography
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Two Days in the Clouds
Play Misty for Me
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Artistic Style
Stunning B & W images of the mountain bushland of Australia
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Judging Competitions
The View from the Other Side
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Wild Waters, Wetlands & Ice
No Longer in Abundance
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Leaving Room …
Where Does the Viewer Live?
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Shadowlands
A Constant Companion
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The Ins and Outs of Photography Projects
What Exactly is a Project?
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To Impress or to Make an Impression
Looking the Other Way
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M62
A Northern Connection
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A Boscage of Birch
Kickstarting A Photobook Project
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Distant Horizons
A Look at a Photographic Meme
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Is Adobe Creative Cloud Bad For Photographers?
Looking for a silver lining..
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Seeing the wood for the trees
An idiots guide to photographing trees
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Urban Landscapes
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Full Circle
Border Stells
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Tripod Wars
When Photographers Collide
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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act & Orphan Works
Mitigating a Disaster
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A Sideways Glance – Part Two
Psycogeography
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The Great Analogue Conundrum
Why Digital is Essential & Why I Went Back to Film
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A Sideways Glance – Part One
Psychogeography
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Facets of Light
Sheffield Botanical Gardens
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4×4 Portfolio
Getting our Subscribers Featured
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What’s in your bag?
A New Feature
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Twelve Significant Photos
or 'what I did in the christmas holidays'
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Judge Dread
What Makes a Good/Bad Photography Judge
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The Royal Landscape Photographer
The Duchess of Cambridge
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Frank Hurley’s Antarctic
Near Enough is not Good Enough
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Be Prepared
Chance Favours the Prepared Mind
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The Future of Landscape Photography
On What Path will the Future Take Us?
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Social Media versus Photography
Social Media - A force for Good or Evil?
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Yes, But is it Art?
Dav Thomas asks if we (photographers) are Artists
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That Sinking Feeling…
This isn’t the first time that Fuji have discontinued my favourite film…
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The Trouble with Conservation Photography
Is there such a thing as Green Photography?
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Going with the Flow
Evolving photographic study of the River Dove
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On Golden Rules…
Composition - David Ward breaks the rules... again!
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Joe Blogs – Manipulated?
Do you manipulate your images? - a response
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Giving Beauty a Bad Name
David Ward considers the Art Community's attitude to beauty
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Travelling Light?
Walking and serious Landscape Photography - an Oxymoron ?
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What is Landscape Photography?
Discussion with Tim Parkin, Joe Cornish, David Ward and Andrew Nadolski
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Am I a Landscape Photographer?
Defining Landscape Photography?
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Ingredients for Photography
You've got the equipment but what about the ingredients?
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Challenge Yourself!
Julian Barkway on pushing the boundaries
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Picture Play
Putting the fun back into photography
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Why I love the Abergavenny hills
Rob Hudson lauds his favourite location
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Dark Beach Project
David Langan discusses his accidental project
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Taming the Complex
Jon Brock introduces his new book Vision and Craft
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Joe Blogs
On being a professional landscape photographer
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Basic Training at North Sands
Chris Pattison discusses his formative years as a photographer at North Sands, Hartlepool
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A Plea for Broader Horizons
David Ward suggests a good read
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Leeming and Paterson
Sole Mates!
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Truth and Lies in Photography
Tim Parkin follows up on Ian Thompson's earlier article
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On Meaning in Photography
When an image is more than the sum of it's parts
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The Truth, the Whole truth and Nothing but the Truth?
Ian Thomas discusses honesty and truth in photography
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Why Size Really Doesn’t Matter
Is Bigger Really Better?
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Why do People Photograph?
David Ward examines our motives for making images
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A Ramble in Wales
Charles Twist's take on photography
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Working in a Different Field
On teaching photography
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Photography and the Creative Life
Guy Tal on the concept of art in photography
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Forget About the Forecast!
On photography and the weather
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Hello, Nice to Meet you
On seeing images for the first time
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An Englishman in the Dolomites
Jon Baker experiences a spectacular mountain range
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Photographers versus Image Libraries
The state of Stock and Rights Management
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You’ve been Framed…
Tim Parkins with more on image theft
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Music and Photography
Do musicians make good photographers?
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Landscape photography saved my life!
Paul Sanders on depression and photography
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Brand New Photographic Sensor
Almost too good to be true
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Moving on Up
From film to digital post-production
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Fix You
Ted Leeming starts a series of posts on his work
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I am Camera
Joe Cornish wonders at photographic devices
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Brockwell Park
Max Rush takes us through a year in Landscape Photographs
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Anthropomorphism in Landscape Photography
Mike Green looks at the Human Form
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Escaping the Rut
Tim Smalley on how to get past a creative rut
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Chelsea Flower Show – An Outdoor Gallery
Landscape Photographer meets Chelsea Flower Show
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Light, Composition or Subject?
Which is the most critical?
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Landscape Photography and Book Publishing
A Rough Guide by Malcolm MacGregor
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Wilderness and the Mind of the Photographer
Malcolm MacGregor responds to Beyond Beauty
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The Psychology of Saturation
Looking at the psychology and history of saturation
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From Hobby to Career
Paul Arthur on the move to Professional
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Photography and Music
Is there a connection?
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Beyond Beauty
Julian Barkway asks if there is more
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In Defence of ‘Wow!’
Dav Thomas surprises himself by defending the 'Wow!' factor
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The Skirrid Hill Project
Taking ‘Thinking like a poet’ to its Logical Conclusion?
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Give some Praise where Praise is Due
Support your fellow photographers!
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Which ‘Self’ do you Take Pictures for?
More thoughts from Tim Parkin on why we make photographs
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Sunsets?
Tim Parkin's thoughts on why we take photographs
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Spirit of Simplicity
Fran Halsall considers the place of simplicity in landscape photography
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The Photographer’s Place
Tim Parkin muses on his photographic development
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The Pursuit of the ‘Wow’ Factor…
Julian Barkway questions the dominance of the dramatic image
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Art Or Commerce?
Fran Halsall discusses the pros and cons of professional landscape photography
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The Art of Slowing Down – Part 2
More on what Digital photographers could learn from their Large Format cousins
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Aspect Ratios – Part 2
Further discussion on aspect ratios
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The Art of Slowing Down
What Digital photographers could learn from their Large Format cousins
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Landscape Beyond
Extracts from David Ward's book
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Creativity in Landscape Photography
How thinking like a poet can provide inspiration
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Aspect Ratios – Part 1
Discussion on aspect ratios