

Christmas Update
We thought christmas was a good opportunity to thank everyone of you who has supported the new venture by taking out a paid subscription, a free subscription or just by visiting and maybe talking about the magazine. We've had a wonderful start and have exceeded the 'ad-hoc' projections we had made. We've also had a bucketload of supportive feedback so thanks to all of you who raised your voices. We have had a couple of set backs to what we more

David Tolcher
I have always aspired to take good landscape pictures but largely failed to reach my own goals, for the first 20 years of taking pictures I chased butterflies & insects and landscape photography was a second interest. more

Dealing with Cold Weather
The following are a compilation of notes made during phone calls, emails and general conversation made over the last week. We start with the man who has arguably been out photographing in Britains coldest ever weather - a minus 29 degrees in Moray last year. more

Ad-hoc Reverse ND Graduated Filters
With a few different combinations, we can create hard strip filters and reverse grads of various powers. more

Olympus EP1 versus Panasonic GF1
I was an early adopter of the m4/3rds ‘compact’ system buying a Panasonic GF-1 with 20mm lens pretty much as soon as they became available. It promised so much. more

Secret Affair
At just over 1000ft high and with no particularly defined peak visible from a distance Beinn Lora is a fairly unremarkable hill to look at. more

Hindsight – Cairngorms
In this Hindsight Joe Cornish talks about three pictures taken in the Cairngorms for Scotland's Mountains. more

Lake District, Mountain Landscape
Alistair Lee is primarily a climber but has been carrying a camera since his early outings more

Jan Tove
Jan Tove is a bit of an enigma in the UK; A photographer of no small talent who has inspired a great many more people than his British profile more

Landscape Beyond
A debate almost as old as photography is whether we take or make photographs. I've always felt strongly that we make images, that it is a creative act. more

Where have the Berries gone?
I have two pictures to show you, not the most scientific of comparisons, but it’s enough to show an aspect of digital photography more

Reflections on Autumn
The season has been a wet one too with frequent spells of stormy weather often lasting for days on end. more

A Skye Log
It’s an obsession, I admit it, even the giants of Torridon and the beautiful mountains of the far North West can’t drag me away from the Isle of Skye. more

Aspect Ratios – Part 1
For photographers of a certain (ahem) age, the aspect ratio of 35mm film, 24mm x 36mm (ie 2x3), was fed to us like mother’s milk. more

On Landscape Launch!
ASBO Allstar - Flickr As I had mentioned in the news from the previous issue, Joe and I gave a interactive session at the National Media Museum on the 16th of October as part of the Photocamp project. The talk was ostensibly about film and digital but we quickly meandered around a few different topics as questions were asked from the audience. I'll come back to more