Articles

editorial

• What Is Real?

  The Curse of Habitual Seeing and Re-Presentation

• The Devil’s Dictionary

  A Cynic’s Wordbook of Photography

• When Time, and Trees, Stood Still

  Constrained, deprived of work, limited to local movement

• The Plain

  An interview with Melanie Friend

• Creativity and Personality

  Openness to Experience, Introversion and Genetic Predisposition

• The Cost of Convenience

  Can Technology Hinder Creativity?

• Landscape Photography and the Meaning of Life

  Forging and Expressing Meaningful Connections

• Cleveland Hills, Winter Storm

  The evolution of a photograph

• The Natural Landscape Photography Awards

  Why another photography competition?

• Don’t Destroy the Cypress Swamp Experience!

  Style Matters - Kayaks, not motorboats

• Poetic Odds

  Toward subjective expression and away from objective realism

• Opportunity Cost

  Do You Know What You’re Missing?

• Photography: An Art Born of Science

  The Conception of Reproduction

• Paul Wakefield

  Resolved, yet unresolved. Inherent mystery and contradiction

• The Landscape of Memory

  The lens of recollection

• Not According to Plan…

  The story behind Poverty Flats

• 10 Years of On Landscape

  Looking back on past articles

• Abstraction in Photography

  The Willing Suspension of Recognition

• A Summons to Seriousness

  Engaging in Desirable Difficulties

• The Metaphoric Landscape

  The power of metaphor resides in the imagination of the individual

• On Staying Inspired

  A moment fully appreciated is a moment fully lived

• Altered Landscape

  Our insatiable appetite for earth’s resources

• Peter Henry Emerson

  Naturalistic photography as art (and science)

• Celebrating Wilderness Photographer Philip Hyde

  Acknowledging Our Roots

• Phases

  Reconciling Our Earlier Work

• On Photographic Technology

  If you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road

• A Cairngorms Learning Curve

  An 'Arctic' Safari in the Highlands

• Landscape as Habitat

  Photographing a Home in the Wild

• A Last Interview with Richard White

  Photos from a Tour around Scotland

• Noise Reduction

  Claim Your Own Quiet Space Within

• Portrait of a Photographer – TJ Thorne

  Healing his soul through the craft of nature photography

• Photo Book Making

  The Final Piece of the Creative Process

• Lost and Found, an interview with Kimberly Schneider

  Traditional Processes and Adapting to a changing world

• The Intimate Landscape

  Focussing on Detail and Texture

• Phone Photos

  The modern flibbertygibbet

• Tragedies of the Landscape Commons

  The risk to the welfare of shared natural landscapes

• The Post-Processing Debate, Part II

  Where do we go from here?

• Landscape and the Philosophers of Photography

  The Battle for the Informative Image

• Shooting in the Dark

  A Revolution

• Motivations in Landscape Photography

  Fail until you get it right—by your own judgement

• The Illusion of Reality

  Individualisation and subjectivation

• Jack of All Trades

  Land upon a different way of seeing

• Three Rocks, The Butt of Lewis

  Winner of Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year competition 2019

• The Sublime Landscape

  The awesome power, and beauty, of nature

• The Way We Were

  Am I the person I want to be here?

• Love Dandelions

  Encouraging local sustainability

• The Value of Things

  A path to self-expression

• The Path Towards Expression – part 3

  Case Study “Septentrio”

• The Post-Processing Debate, Part I:

  One Century After the Struggle Between Pictorialism and Group f.64

• Meaning, C19 and the Voice Within Our Landscapes

  Re-evaluating our approach

• Photographing Rocks

  Nature and photography in times of social distancing

• Iconic Landscape

  Attempting to make unfamiliar pictures of familiar subjects

• Listening to the Arctic

  A unique landscape is being lost from the face of the Earth

• The hidden value of the humble peat bog

  Yorkshire’s peatlands

• Living a Visual Life

  An interview with Guy Tal

• The Meaning of a Life

  Our unique perspectives, personal and beyond judgement

• Geographic Landscapes

  Photography as 'Earth Description'

• Meeting of Minds Conference Update

  Announcing 3 more speakers

• The Path Towards Expression – part 2

  Personal and expressive photography

• Why did you take it?

  A change of perspective

• Living Lightly in a Consumerist Industry

  The balance between being well equipped and sustainable

• The Path Towards Expression

  Unlearning the learnt

• A Different Viewpoint

  Photography on the Ullswater Steamers

• Fotospeed Fine Art Paper Review

  What’s the practical difference between these papers?

• Why Monochrome?

  Len muses over why he is so attracted to monochromatic photography

• 7 Principles to Reduce the Individual & Collective Impact of Nature Photography on Wild Places

  The Nature First Photography Initiative

• Looking for Landscape Photography

  Ontological Minestrone

• Behind the Photograph

  An interview with Charlie Waite

• Art and Flow in Photography

  Finding the Zone

• I never expected that

  Going back to Yew Tree Tarn

• Quest for Calm

  What constitutes a therapeutic image?

• Interview with Greg Stewart of Kozu Books

  Insights into the production of photo books

• An exploration of Brian Eno’s ‘Ambient 4 : On Land’

  Insights into the locations behind the music

• Monochromatic Lens

  Len’s Simplified System

• Creation by Passing Ducks and The Representation of Reality

  Images as Experiences rather than Equivalences

• Beyond Equivalence

  Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should create art

• Graeme Green

  Featured Photographer

• The Uninvited Guest

  The voice that says “you can’t” when clearly you most certainly can

• It’s Time We Were Critical

  Critic, Critical, Criticism and Critique

• Lyme Disease

  A Public Service Announcement!

• What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting

  Train yourself to find value in the process

• Reclaimed

  The ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia

• Deception by Realism

  Objectivity, Reality, Truth and Art

• Meaning: You Get to Decide

  Make images for any reason you wish

• Remnants on the High Plains

  Resilient to the years of abandonment

• Letting go of Truth

  Creative expressionism

• The Dunes at Oceano

  A less well known location with an interesting history

• Ditching Graduated Filters

  Making the case for a “gradless” capture process

• A Question of Meaning

  The Search For Meaning and Expression in Our Work

• The restorative effects of landscape photography

  The immersive experience of being in nature

• Time to reflect…

  Returning to my Photographic Roots

• Varieties of Experience

  Reframing our stories

• Why are neutral density graduated filters so popular?

  Getting things ‘right’ in camera

• The quests of landscape photography

  What is your motivation?

• Skye – Away from the Madding Crowds

  A Bank Holiday on Skye? Are we mad?!

• Time and Photography

  Taking a look at the role Time plays in the still image

• Dispatches from the collapse

  Our abject lack of preparation for what is to come

• Multiple Exposure, Layers, Textures ….. and all that Jazz

  Different approaches to image making

• Photographic Pedagogy

  The role of the teacher in photographic art

• Nick Stone

  Featured Photographer

• A question of responsibility

  Does being an outdoor photographer inevitably lead to environmentalism?

• Discovery and Rediscovery

  Don’t be afraid

• Finding Flow through Mindfulness

  The Practical Guide to the Zen of Creativity

• In Turner’s Footsteps

  Taking Turner On Our Own Photographic Journey

• After All This Time

  A personal connection

• Say Yes

  Creates opportunities even when they are not obvious

• Photographing for Others

  If I was the last person on the planet, would I still photograph?

• The Photo Book

  A key medium to convey inspiration

• The Power of Transitions

  Part II

• The Importance of Self-Critique

  Learning To View Your Images Objectively

• Into the White Sands

  Connecting with the essence of the place

• The Difference

  Why Who You Are Matters In Photography

• A Visual and Tactile Adventure

  An exchange of ideas

• Being There

  A traverse of the mountain of the sun

• The Power of Transitions

  Part I

• The Second Kind

  On Photography and Freedom

• If No One Saw Your Photographs

  or how to gauge success

• The Collaborative Photographer

  The long chain of the photographic process

• Changing Perceptions in Landscape Photography

  Adopting behaviours and strategies that support real stories about the landscape

• Landscape and Abstraction

  Thoughts on the Subject of Landscape

• The Age of Neopictorialism

  Current trends in landscape photography from a historical perspective

• What it meant to me

  Developing emotional diversity

• Diamonds and Sand

  The act of mindfulness in the landscape

• Meet Your DMN

  How to hack your brain to become a better landscape photographer

• Limitations and constraints in photography

  The enemy of art is the absence of limitations

• Tales of a Wandering Photographer

  Abandonment

• Social Media and Photography

  A Pause for Thought

• Giants of the Mystic forest

  The Californian Redwood Forest

• Thoughts on Beauty

  Are Aesthetic Principles Old Fashioned?

• Ethics in photography

  Trust between photographer, subject and audience

• Ebb and Flow

  Riding the Waves of Creative Energy

• The Collodion Artist

  Why is Wet Plate Photography so Popular?

• A Look at the Resurgence of Wet Plate

  The Hiking Collodionist

• A Fool’s Errand

  The Futility of Looking for Vision

• Realism and Honesty in Photography

  Feelings of Deception and Managing Expectations

• Liquid photography

  the slow photography philosophy

• Photography, Chance and Solitude

  A way of working

• The Humanless Condition

  On Introversion, Solitude, and Photography

• From Realism to Abstraction

  The interpretation of a place

• Photography as Performance Art

  Metaphor making

• Shoshin

  Beginning Again Every Time

• The Label

  Language as a pitfall for the creative photographer

• The Anatomy of Grey

  Subtlety is intriguing, contrast is commonplace

• Morality and Realism in Photography

  Realism in photography is the exception, not the norm. We should treat it as such

• Romania Project Diary

  The ebb and flow of the creative process.

• Creation vs. Production

  The Autotelic Photographer

• The More Things Change

  Tough Love on Visual Literacy and Proactive Creativity

• Aligning the Moral Compass

  Our responsibility to post processing & image sharing

• Hot Places

  Mixed Feelings of Iceland

• Finding Your Creative Voice

  If you want to work on your art, work on your life

• An Interview with Charlie Waite

  "Photography has become the new common language"

• Flow States and the Art of Consciousness Cycling

  Being Conscious of the Subconscious

• It Depends

  Divergent Thinking, Creativity, and Why You Should Care

• On Exhibitions

  Reflections on Artistic Inspiration

• Yellow Mountains

  Paul talks about his latest trip

• The National Trusts and Commercial Photography

  The Responses to Last Years Enquiries

• Judging the Judges

  Thoughts on Competition and Image Critique

• Interview with Ben Horne

  Ben Responds to our Readers Questions

• Sharp but not Sharper

  Matching Intent & Objective

• The Impact of Photography on Impressionism

  The Impact of Impressionism on Photography

• The Myth of Control

  A Case Study of the Rock Island Bend photograph by Peter Dombrovskis

• Personal Style

  Define or Confine?

• The Making of Time

  Interview with Rafael Rojas

• Humanising the Machine

  Healing through making photographs

• Finding the forest when lost amongst the trees

  Finding an emotional connection

• The Decaying Alps

  Humanity’s Presence

• Limestone Landscapes

  Flow & Time

• Chalk Hills White Horses

  THE HILL FIGURES THROUGH SOUTHERN ENGLAND

• Beyond the Spectacular

  Pushing the boundaries of what extraordinary is

• Pinhole Photography Follow Up

  Putting it into Practise

• The Three-Dimensioned Life

  Consideration in our creative choices

• After the Fire

  The resilience of nature

• Compositional Controversies

  Part 6: Depth and Flow

• In Praise of Film Pinhole Photography

  Getting hooked

• Saturation by Saturation

  The skill of subtlety in good post-processing

• Returning to Landscape Photography

  Taking pictures of pleasure, not pain

• Planned Productions

  And the Unplanned Experience

• Yan Preston – Mother River

  Interview about Yangtze River Project

• A Change of Format

  My first steps into the world of Medium Format Film Photography

• Hokkaido

  Distilling the elements

• Layers

  Deconstructing the image and using additional layers creatively

• Focusing The Manual Way

  Making Explicit Focussing Decisions

• On Becoming

  Live Your Questions Now

• Manmade Landscapes

  A deeper message

• Desert Epiphany

  An Appreciation of Harmony in the Landscape

• Wild Garlic

  The Bluebell Alternative

• A Technique for Editing Your Photography…

  Not just another task

• Photography and The Wonder of Life

  A Meditation on Why I Photograph

• Why I love my iPhone for landscape photography

  So why I must give it up

• The Death of Landscape Photography is greatly exaggerated

  A provocative critique

• A look into Romania’s nature

  An overview of a wild and spectacular country

• The Rise and Rise of the Photo-Book

  An Overview of Contemporary Publishing

• Foreground First

  A style evolving

• It Takes Two

  Creatively Blending Ideas

• Bye, Bye Landscape Photography, Dear

  Are the pioneering days over?

• The Path of Opportunity

  Making Life Hard for Yourself

• Why not…?

  Creating something other than an objective facsimile

• Life on the Ullswater Steamers

  Uncovering New and Unknown Gems

• Don’t Forget To Take Your Soul

  Listening to Your Inner Self

• Happiness, Creativity and Photography

  Artists, Scientists & Thinkers on Happiness & Creativity

• The Curse of ‘Pre-Visualisation’

  ... and the Merits of an Open Mind

• Rowan Trees (Sorbus Aucuparia)

  Majestic Kings of the Hills

• Planning vs Spontaneity

  ‘It’s behind you’ factor in photography

• Faces in the Canyon

  Wetsuits and Pelicans in the Blue Mountains

• Distinctive Individuality

  The Art of Differentiation

• First Steppes with 100 Megapixels

  With Phase One in Mongolia

• Lee Acaster

  Featured Photographer

• The Freedom of Constraints

  Exploring Limitations & Creativity

• In decline

  A homage to the solid state of water

• Birch

  The Ruler of the Mountain

• Killing the Buddha

  Expressing Yourself

• Photography and the Concept of Flow

  Being in the moment

• Time

  Len ponders the importance of time in his photography….

• Organising a Photo Laundry

  Community Driven Pop Up Exhibitions

• Heather – Calluna Vulgaris

  Purple Haze all in my Brain

• Laki

  In the foot prints of the worst natural catastrophe in history

• Beyond The Spectacular Landscape

  The move from images of something, to images about something

• Compositional Controversies

  Part 5: Form and Void

• The Subtle World of Infra Red

  Rediscovering an Old Flame

• Casualties of Progress

  and the Death of Photography

• England and Nowhere

  recent photographic project

• Urban Arctic

  Modern mans presence in the high north

• Oriental Philosophy & Photography

  Mystery is the fuel of both art and philosophy

• A Return to Waldeinsamkeit

  Phil Hemsely talks about his feelings for Fernfire Wood

• The Art of Practice

  Seeing beyond the camera

• Compositional Controversies

  Part 4: Leading the Line (or, Following the Herd?)

• The Importance of Context

  Trust and Freedom of Expression

• Black & White

  The core DNA of photography

• The Unknown Room

  Steps in the personal growth of the photographer

• Compositional Controversies

  Part 3: Aspect Ratio Wars

• An Accidental Book Venture

  From curiosity to business venture

• Luminous photographs

  one of my favourite photographic secrets

• Rolling Stones, Norwegian Wood and some others

  a homage to Eliot Porter

• Conflicts of Interest

  A Personal Relationship with Wild Places

• Compositional Controversies

  Part 2: Rule of Thirds

• Iceland from above

  Making the impossible possible

• Looking back, looking forward

  A first serious dip in the digital pool

• Looking for excellence

  Advice for oneself

• An alternative view…

  A look at what else is there

• The Perils of Social Photography

  Guy Tal discusses the role of social media in the process of making images

• Mount Fitzroy

  A boy dream which came true

• Art and Inspiration

  A Confusion of Goals and Means?

• Polar Voyages

  Joe Cornish Writes about his trips to the Arctic & Antarctic

• Abisko

  My first hiking experience

• Has colour photography finally come of age?

  A look at the history of colour photography and image manipulation

• When is a Cliché not a Cliché

  Familiar Themes as the Grammar of Photography

• Healing

  Holme Fell & Hodge Close Quarry

• The Pros and Cons of Clichés

  Just what is a cliché and what is it doing to our photography?

• The Original Landscape Workshop

  Remembering Fay Godwin & Paul Hill

• There’s no Art without…

  The necessary preconditions for the creation of Art

• The Credit Crunch

  Giving credit for our inspiration & the influences in our work

• Fields of the British Isles

  Contemporary images that still reveal something of the historical landscape layers

• Journey of Photographic Discovery

  Away from the familiar - to an unknown & unfrequented landscape

• Softly Does it

  Soft Light Photography

• Not a Master

  Pondering the "Artistic Master" in Photography

• Face to Face with the Sublime

  Inspired by Alan Hinkes

• On Limitations and Creativity

  Freedom comes at a cost..

• The Problem with Photography Journalism

  It's Fine but is it Art?

• Taste and Landscape Photography

  Using a Musical Analogy

• What is Landscape Photography …

  .. and where might its boundaries lie?

• Overexposure

  Guy Tal asks is too much bad for you

• Autumnal Notes

  Transitions from Burnham Beeches

• The Path of Some Resistance

  Guy Tal talks about being a better photographer through challenging yourself to be unique

• Zero Footprint

  2009-2014

• Artistic Promiscuity

  A Question of Influence

• Respect

  Walk Softly and Leave no Trace?

• Tripod Wars: Time for a Ceasefire?

  A View from the Other Side

• Indecisive? Moi?!

  Ansel Adams, only human after all..

• Judging Competitions

  Tim shares recent experiences in judging competitions to help improve your hit rate

• On Creativity – Pt 2

  Part 2: Getting in the Flow…

• Exhibition Planning Part 3

  Final instalment of Tim's journey to his first exhibition

• Changing Landscapes?

  A Look at the History of Landscape Photography

• Two Days in the Clouds

  Play Misty for Me

• Artistic Style

  Stunning B & W images of the mountain bushland of Australia

• Judging Competitions

  The View from the Other Side

• Wild Waters, Wetlands & Ice

  No Longer in Abundance

• Leaving Room …

  Where Does the Viewer Live?

• Shadowlands

  A Constant Companion

• The Ins and Outs of Photography Projects

  What Exactly is a Project?

• To Impress or to Make an Impression

  Looking the Other Way

• M62

  A Northern Connection

• A Boscage of Birch

  Kickstarting A Photobook Project

• Distant Horizons

  A Look at a Photographic Meme

• Is Adobe Creative Cloud Bad For Photographers?

  Looking for a silver lining..

• Seeing the wood for the trees

  An idiots guide to photographing trees

• Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

  Urban Landscapes

• Full Circle

  Border Stells

• Tripod Wars

  When Photographers Collide

• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act & Orphan Works

  Mitigating a Disaster

• A Sideways Glance – Part Two

  Psycogeography

• The Great Analogue Conundrum

  Why Digital is Essential & Why I Went Back to Film

• A Sideways Glance – Part One

  Psychogeography

• Facets of Light

  Sheffield Botanical Gardens

• 4×4 Portfolio

  Getting our Subscribers Featured

• What’s in your bag?

  A New Feature

• Twelve Significant Photos

  or 'what I did in the christmas holidays'

• Judge Dread

  What Makes a Good/Bad Photography Judge

• The Royal Landscape Photographer

  The Duchess of Cambridge

• Frank Hurley’s Antarctic

  Near Enough is not Good Enough

• Be Prepared

  Chance Favours the Prepared Mind

• The Future of Landscape Photography

  On What Path will the Future Take Us?

• Social Media versus Photography

  Social Media - A force for Good or Evil?

• Yes, But is it Art?

  Dav Thomas asks if we (photographers) are Artists

• That Sinking Feeling…

  This isn’t the first time that Fuji have discontinued my favourite film…

• The Trouble with Conservation Photography

  Is there such a thing as Green Photography?

• Going with the Flow

  Evolving photographic study of the River Dove

• On Golden Rules…

  Composition - David Ward breaks the rules... again!

• Joe Blogs – Manipulated?

  Do you manipulate your images? - a response

• Giving Beauty a Bad Name

  David Ward considers the Art Community's attitude to beauty

• Travelling Light?

  Walking and serious Landscape Photography - an Oxymoron ?

• What is Landscape Photography?

  Discussion with Tim Parkin, Joe Cornish, David Ward and Andrew Nadolski

• Am I a Landscape Photographer?

  Defining Landscape Photography?

• Ingredients for Photography

  You've got the equipment but what about the ingredients?

• Challenge Yourself!

  Julian Barkway on pushing the boundaries

• Picture Play

  Putting the fun back into photography

• Why I love the Abergavenny hills

  Rob Hudson lauds his favourite location

• Dark Beach Project

  David Langan discusses his accidental project

• Taming the Complex

  Jon Brock introduces his new book Vision and Craft

• Joe Blogs

  On being a professional landscape photographer

• Basic Training at North Sands

  Chris Pattison discusses his formative years as a photographer at North Sands, Hartlepool

• A Plea for Broader Horizons

  David Ward suggests a good read

• Leeming and Paterson

  Sole Mates!

• Truth and Lies in Photography

  Tim Parkin follows up on Ian Thompson's earlier article

• On Meaning in Photography

  When an image is more than the sum of it's parts

• The Truth, the Whole truth and Nothing but the Truth?

  Ian Thomas discusses honesty and truth in photography

• Why Size Really Doesn’t Matter

  Is Bigger Really Better?

• Why do People Photograph?

  David Ward examines our motives for making images

• A Ramble in Wales

  Charles Twist's take on photography

• Working in a Different Field

  On teaching photography

• Photography and the Creative Life

  Guy Tal on the concept of art in photography

• Forget About the Forecast!

  On photography and the weather

• Hello, Nice to Meet you

  On seeing images for the first time

• An Englishman in the Dolomites

  Jon Baker experiences a spectacular mountain range

• Photographers versus Image Libraries

  The state of Stock and Rights Management

• You’ve been Framed…

  Tim Parkins with more on image theft

• Music and Photography

  Do musicians make good photographers?

• Landscape photography saved my life!

  Paul Sanders on depression and photography

• Brand New Photographic Sensor

  Almost too good to be true

• Moving on Up

  From film to digital post-production

• Fix You

  Ted Leeming starts a series of posts on his work

• I am Camera

  Joe Cornish wonders at photographic devices

• Brockwell Park

  Max Rush takes us through a year in Landscape Photographs

• Anthropomorphism in Landscape Photography

  Mike Green looks at the Human Form

• Escaping the Rut

  Tim Smalley on how to get past a creative rut

• Chelsea Flower Show – An Outdoor Gallery

  Landscape Photographer meets Chelsea Flower Show

• Light, Composition or Subject?

  Which is the most critical?

• Landscape Photography and Book Publishing

  A Rough Guide by Malcolm MacGregor

• Wilderness and the Mind of the Photographer

  Malcolm MacGregor responds to Beyond Beauty

• The Psychology of Saturation

  Looking at the psychology and history of saturation

• From Hobby to Career

  Paul Arthur on the move to Professional

• Photography and Music

  Is there a connection?

• Beyond Beauty

  Julian Barkway asks if there is more

• In Defence of ‘Wow!’

  Dav Thomas surprises himself by defending the 'Wow!' factor

• The Skirrid Hill Project

  Taking ‘Thinking like a poet’ to its Logical Conclusion?

• Give some Praise where Praise is Due

  Support your fellow photographers!

• Which ‘Self’ do you Take Pictures for?

  More thoughts from Tim Parkin on why we make photographs

• Sunsets?

  Tim Parkin's thoughts on why we take photographs

• Spirit of Simplicity

  Fran Halsall considers the place of simplicity in landscape photography

• The Photographer’s Place

  Tim Parkin muses on his photographic development

• The Pursuit of the ‘Wow’ Factor…

  Julian Barkway questions the dominance of the dramatic image

• Art Or Commerce?

  Fran Halsall discusses the pros and cons of professional landscape photography

• The Art of Slowing Down – Part 2

  More on what Digital photographers could learn from their Large Format cousins

• Aspect Ratios – Part 2

  Further discussion on aspect ratios

• The Art of Slowing Down

  What Digital photographers could learn from their Large Format cousins

• Landscape Beyond

  Extracts from David Ward's book

• Creativity in Landscape Photography

  How thinking like a poet can provide inspiration

• Aspect Ratios – Part 1

  Discussion on aspect ratios