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Issue 249
Browse On Landscape on your Tablet, iPad or Desktop
End Frame: Rydal Water by Paul Sanders
Kate Somervell chooses one of her favourite images
Joe and Tim Droning On About …
A Look at the World of Aerial Landscape Photography
Alex Hartley
Featured Photographer
Art and Mental Health
Discovering our own strength and beauty
Upper Loch Torridon
A Not So Wintery Visit
The Colour of Silence
Do we have to be a member of a conservation organisation to have a relevant message about preserving nature?
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Everyone loves a bit of snow but this week in the Highlands we’ve had a LOT of snow. If you want to enjoy the hills in this sort of weather, it pays great dividends to get some professional guidance in the use of the equipment needed and also in the assessment of where it’s safe to travel. Avalanches can happen even on lower slopes and more than one guide turned around because of dangerous conditions this week. Fortunately, me and Charlotte were lucky in that the day we booked out with our mountain guide was one of the best of the month and we had calm conditions to learn about moving on some steeper ground.
My colleague, Alex Nail, was also up in the area, running a workshop with a winter mountain leader - a great way to learn the basics of winter safety and it got them into some proper winter mountain territory. They definitely got that this week with Deadly Dudley (an Atlantic storm name) coming through. Knowing when to stay low kept them all safe.
Today, the West Highlands had our first “High” avalanche hazard of the year and, even though there was no wind and it was one of the first blue sky, alpine days of the season, most of the guides decided to play it safe and take a rest day. We had Charlotte’s parents to stay and decided to go for a low level walk near Loch Shiel, just down from the Glenfinnan memorial (see the photo below).
As tempting as it is to make the most of your time in the mountains, they aren’t going anywhere and can be enjoyed almost as much looking up at them as looking down from them.
Tim Parkin
The Venomous Mountain from Glenfinnan
Tim Parkin
Issue 249
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End Frame: Rydal Water by Paul Sanders
His image of Rydal Water is packed with exquisite imagery and a myriad of emotions. more
Joe and Tim Droning On About …
This conversation between myself (Joe Cornish) and Tim Parkin was one where we hoped to explore the arrival of the drone in landscape photography and try to understand its impact. Tim is an occasional drone pilot, Joe has never even touched one. more
Alex Hartley
During my BA, partly due to space constraints, I started making sculptures solely to be photographed, so the end product was a black and white photograph and the sculpture would be destroyed or dismantled once the image was made. more
Art and Mental Health
The same can be said when we, as creatives, post a new piece of art online for the world to see. Though we may tell ourselves, initially, that it does not matter how many *likes* or comments we receive. when we don’t receive what we might expect or hope for, we may find ourselves wishing we had never posted the piece. more
Upper Loch Torridon
Torridon is a well known area of North West Scotland that for many embodies what the Highlands are about. It is wild, rugged, quite remote and has stood from ancient times withstanding all that the Atlantic weather can throw at it. more
The Colour of Silence
The goal of the book is to show both the distilled essences of nature and to deliver it to people directly. Demonstrating that our natural flora and fauna are one-of-a-kind gems that require people's active engagement with. more