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The Majestic Trees of Deadvlei
Recently, I had the joyous experience of driving across Namibia with a group for friends. I piloted the 'girl car' through the rough and ready roads of the Namib Desert. The landscape is harsh, hot and desperately beautiful. One of my key destinations was the dried up salt pan of Sossusvlei, where the dead trees still stand after they were cut off from water by the dunes more
Stories Written in Stone
As a geologist and photographer it was inevitable that I'd take photographs of rocks. This group of "intimate landscapes" were taken near my home on the Northumberland coast in the UK more
On Human Landscape
While I typically enjoy street and landscape photography, every now and then, while looking down my microscope at someone’s biopsy or operative surgical resection, I will be struck by the beauty of the human tissue. more
Layered landscape
In nature, we rarely encounter uniform patterns on a large scale, but by using a telephoto lens, we can subtract unwanted elements from the scene and thus magnify subtle patterns or shapes more
Embracing Opportunity
Over the course of the last few months, we have experienced what feels like a record-breaking amount of rain. The land around me is in a constant flux of flooding. more
Any Questions, with special guest Colin Prior
This fourth episode features Colin Prior where we discussed his background and journey as a photographer, his transition from film to digital photography, and his experiences using the 617 camera in the mountains. more
Ellie Davies
The process of photography teaches us to really look at the world and so I think this makes it a vitally important tool in bringing awareness to environmental issues that need urgent attention. more
Book Review: Hypnosis
All of the images originate in forest landscapes, but this book is not just comprised of a series of pretty woodland photos. Instead, it's a thoughtful and deep invitation to explore your inner self and unconscious mind. more
End frame: Blade of light by Rafael Rojas
The photographer who created this image, Rafael Rojas, is a master at seeing, and takes great pleasure in teaching people how to see and to master the use of photography as a creative tool of personal expression. more
Suzanne Mathia – Portrait of a Photographer
Suzanne describes herself as being very curious about the subjects she photographs. If followed, a high level of curiosity can lead to better photographs of even the most mundane of subjects. more
The Sheffield Great Flood of 1864
By the 19th Century, Sheffield’s rapid industrial expansion stimulated population growth, calling for a reliable water source to provide power for industry and to improve sanitation for residents, many of whom lived in squalid shared housing. Consequently, an ambitious programme of reservoir construction was undertaken. The Dale Dyke dam excavations began on 1st January 1859. On the evening of 11th March 1864, during a violent storm, a crack was spotted in the embankment of the recently completed Dale Dyke dam. more
Peter Gordon
I have always maintained throughout my life that I wanted to work at something I felt passionate about. I feel so lucky that photography has given me that platform. more
Landscape as Visual Haiku
Most visual haiku images to be found are not linked to words, though there are examples where images have been used as a basis for haiku, or as in the Forms of Japan, existing haiku have been chosen to accompany an image. more
Lost & Found in Fog
Some things that are lost are tangible, though no more precious than those bits of ourselves we lose along the way, like the inspiration that fled from my life when I chose career over creativity, stability to be free to stability from want and need. more
End frame: Taos Gorge, taken in 2007 near Taos, New Mexico by Jack Spencer
It was the fence that confused me. What in the world!? It took me a while to see it as a metaphor. The fence is a guardrail, a human artefact that "protects" us from seeing clearly or even directly interacting with the natural world beyond it. more