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Mark Littlejohn – Landscape Photographer of the Year
Take a View's Landscape Photographer of the Year was announced yesterday and it was great to be able to announce that Mark Littlejohn had won the top place. His image of the side of Beinn Fhada is beautiful and just the sort of high quality photograph we'd hoped would win. And Mark couldn't be any more deserving. Despite only starting photography a few years ago he has produced a stunning array of images, mainly from the Lake District and more
End Frame – “Stalking Tiger in the Osaka Zoo” by Shosuke Yamaguchi
The images that appeal most to me now leave something to the imagination. They paint an impression more
Tom McLaughlan
Look beyond the pattern and colour of Tom McLaughlan’s abstracted buildings and structures and you will find something organic. more
John Finney
John Finney creates atmospheric landscape images – misty mornings, trees and villages lost in the fog, valleys and hillsides draped in cloud and punctuated by piercing light - frequently dynamic views in which weather is a major element. more
Zero Footprint
The Zero Footprint project, explained in a nutshell, is a series of landscape photographs captured from one single location over a period of five years, and counting. The restriction is purely geographical – roughly one square metre of the patio outside our kitchen, we could use any camera and lens combination and had the entire (not insubstantial) vista as a palette. The one other stipulation was that each image should be aesthetically pleasing in it’s own right, as well more
Vanda Ralevska
Vanda Ralevska is as unstinting in her enthusiasm and encouragement for her fellow photographers as she is in her own passion for creating images. Despite being a talented wedding and portrait photographer, she has chosen to concentrate on landscape photography. If there is a hill or mountain in the UK that she hasn’t climbed or an area of coast yet to be walked, you can rest assured that they are probably on her list. At times it is easy to more
Indecisive? Moi?!
I've read a small amount about Ansel Adams over the last few years and he has always come across as the master technician of landscape photography. His teaching of the Zone System and his considered 5x4 and 10x8 work was an aspirational example of the master craftsman personified. So it was with a small amount of relief that I read an article about the making of "Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite" and discovered that he wasn't quite the perfectionist more
Valerie Millett
There can be many reasons why we first pick up a camera, but sooner or later it takes us on a journey. A relatively recent traveller is North American landscape photographer Valerie Millett. more
Book Review – Pierino’s Snowdonia
Pierino Algieri, as the name probably suggests, hails not from Wales but from Southern Italy, only settling in Wales after a tortuous Second World War. I wouldn’t mention this biographical aside but it’s part of the joy of this small photographic book. Pierino has written what is effectively part family history, part diary, part photo guide and part ode to the Welsh countryside. The passion for photography and family reflect each other well and after a foreword by Peter more
Michael Jackson – Poppit Sands
If you've been reading On Landscape for a while you'll remember in issue 26 that we interviewed Michael Jackson about his black and white project on the patterns at Poppit Sands. Michael has continued to create more work in the series and has had great success in promoting it to various establishments. This month sees a small 'taster' exhibition at the Beetles & Huxley gallery in London. Ten prints are on show selected from Michael's substantial catalogue of more
Harry Callahan Exhibition and Catalog
"I know what you're thinking: 'Did he use two sheets of film or only one?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a Deardorff 8x10, the most powerful camera in the world, and would blow your D800E clean away, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?" - filed under "Things Harry Callahan might not have said" more
The Year of the Print Exhibition
The idea of a group exhibition where the exhibitors are selected by who has the incentive to put their hand in their pockets and the pictures selected by the same people initially struck me as a recipe for disaster. Without a curatorial control over such an exhibition the end result could have been a mashing together of holidays snaps and works of art; literal representations among ICM madness. So it was with some surprise that I entered the Mall more
Polarisers, Shutter Speeds and Flowing Water
I think it would be safe to say that the vast majority of us have taken photographs of water flowing over rocks in a river at some point or other. The way water dances over stones, the way the bubbles dart back and forth and surface foam lazily traces paths through our waterways is enough to keep a photographer in action for most of a decent sized compact flash card. I was recently in Glencoe, Scotland and saw a particularly more
Distant Horizons – The Books
Beyond Words kindly added a paragraph to our article about the sea horizon meme and we ordered a few of these. As we've spent a few days getting our book photography perfected we thought we'd include the ones we purchased here. more
4×4 Portfolio
Our 4x4 portfolio is open to anyone to enter, all you need to do is choose four photographs, preferably related in some way. If you would like to submit your own 4x4 portfolio please visit this page for submission information. Robin Hudson David Mantripp Andrew Smith Vanda Ralevska more