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Softly Does it
While I was in the process of learning to photograph the landscape (and still am!) I was intrigued by a comment from a fellow photographer that when the light was soft and flat it was details weather. I fully understand that details work really well under soft lighting conditions but what was wrong with trying to shoot a vista in soft, flat light? The British Isles’ weather systems more
Endframe – “Yellow Sea, Cheju, 1992” by Hiroshi Sugimoto
I have not given much thought to horizon lines for a long time. Indeed, I have not given much thought to straight lines in general for a long time. Living in the heart of the Lakeland fells as we do, or did, straight lines do not feature in the landscape very much and where they do occur they seem an unwelcome intrusion on our sensibilities; inevitably man made and symbolic of our disregard, even fear, of nature’s organic more
Greg Whitton
Can you tell me a little about your education, childhood passions, early exposure to photography and vocation? I had an unconventional upbringing as I was a 'forces brat', my dad was in the Army. I didn't live in mainland UK until I was 15 when he was finally posted back to blighty. We lived mainly in Germany with a couple of years in Hong Kong. Holidays tended to partially involve the Alps more
In Sympathy with the Landscape: the photographic pastoral
In a previous article we looked at Alan Hinkes’s photographic depiction of the Sublime. High up in the Himalaya, in the death zone, Hinkes photographed awe-inspiring landscapes, where man was insignificant and puny in the face of massive and indifferent nature. Hinkes, whether consciously or not, was tapping into an artistic genre. In the 17th and 18th centuries artists had deliberately sought to capture the emotional impact that particularly mountain landscapes had created in the viewer. The exhilaration more
Peter Scammell
Although he has always taken photographs, a move from London to Devon gave his photography new impetus. more
Endframe – “Iberia Quarries #3” by Edward Burtynsky
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 to the photographic image. On my last visit to (the analogue?) Beyond Words I acquired Edward Burtynsky’s book, more
Endframe – “Low Hows Wood” by Joe Wright
The customary introduction to an End Frame article is to write about how difficult it is to choose a single image that has been inspirational in one’s photographic development. I’ve read those introductions myself and thought: “come on, how hard can it be?” Turns out the answer to that is “very”! My task is maybe somewhat easier by the fact that I’m not a very well read photographer. By which I mean that I don’t have a vast knowledge of more
Cross Country Skiing in Arctic Sweden with the Fuji X-E2
Last year I wrote about my experiences cross country skiing in Norway’s Rondane National Park using a Fujifilm compact camera system - at that time I was using the X-E1 and X-M1, with the 18-55mm and 55-200mm zoom lenses attached. A year on, I again found myself enjoying a fabulous few days skiing with my husband, Rob - this time in Abisko in Arctic Sweden. Abisko had long been on our radar because it is the start of the more
Lens Quality and Testing
Tim Parkin and David Ward overran the predicted hour long discussion on the ins and outs of lens quality and testing but with such a lot of ground our listeners supported our flagrant ignorance of temporal limitations. With lenses costing so much itís pretty important to make the right purchasing decision but how can we do this without trying all of the possibilities out ourselves. Well there more
Martyn Lucas
This issue we have Bolton born Martyn Lucas and his pretty spectacular arctic, antarctic and sub-arctic work. Can you tell me a little about your education, childhood passions, early exposure to photography and vocation? Individually and together, my parents educated me about right and wrong, ignited my passion for creating images, introduced me to walking for long periods of time, and were in essence my guardians and my friend. You see I grew up as an only child in Bolton, Lancashire. more
Endframe – “The Start” by Brian Kerr
I remember the first time that I got up early with a camera to photograph the sun rise over Ullswater. It was the 23rd of February 2010 and I’d bought my first SLR camera, a Pentax K-X, about three weeks before. Up until this point I was firmly a happy snapping hillwalker who had treated himself to an upgrade from his old Canon compact. I went to Aira Point and shot back into the rising sun. The colour was more
Endframe – “On Being Aware of Nature” by Mario Giacomelli
It can be of no surprise that Mario Giacomelli is generally regarded as one of Italy's greatest photographers. Born in 1925 he took his first photographs at 25 and won a national photography competition a year later. From then on he moved from subject to subject - a hospice, an abattoir, trainee Catholic priests playing in the snow - and, of course, his landscape. My chosen image is from a series that he worked on from 1977 more
Endframe – “Jim Jim Falls” by Peter Jarver
The year was 1988 and I was living in Sydney with my wife and kids enjoying a 2 year overseas assignment to Australia. I was a hardened B&W photographer for all except the natural history work that I did. I had never been especially inspired by colour landscape work. Looking back it is easy to forget that this was before the time when Waite/Cornish/Noton rainmakers changed popular landscape photography in the 90’s. It was largely documentary and quite literal more
Cath Waters
I’ve been enjoying her images for a while, which sit somewhere between landscape photography and digital art. more
Keith Craven
Many of us are behind the camera through choice, but sometimes events conspire to bring us out into the light. more