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Lost and Found, an interview with Kimberly Schneider
We got an email from Kimberly at the beginning of June to say she’d set up her darkroom again and started experiment with photograms. more
The Intimate Landscape
The intimate landscape maybe that place in landscape photography where we can justly claim our medium is a form of visual poetry. more
Phone Photos
My iPhone removes all the technical barriers. I see something and I snap it. Simple. We make life too complicated at times. more
Tragedies of the Landscape Commons
In recent years, landscape photography has become so popular that photographers now pose a real risk to the welfare of natural landscapes and their communities of life, and to the experiences these places make possible. more
The Post-Processing Debate, Part II
The essence of the current debate is, at what point does post-processing cease to approximate reality as it was and begin to depict reality as the photographer wished it to be? more
Landscape and the Philosophers of Photography
The battle between the photographer and the camera to provide an informative image and avoiding redundancy is an increasing challenge as novel locations become commonplace and cameras and digital processing more sophisticated. more
Shooting in the Dark
Do we need to reconsider our approach to photographing the landscape? I think we do. If the quest for true answers will limit our freedom to roam the world in the pursuit of creativeness and adventure, are we willing to take the consequences? more
Motivations in Landscape Photography
I urge each of you reading to articulate if only to yourself, what motivates you and why, and what you do to drive your own motivation. more
The Illusion of Reality
A fundamental fallacy here is that post-processing is viewed with suspicion and is always accused of being manipulative, while the creative decisions made before triggering that button on the camera are completely free of it. more
Jack of All Trades
It’s good to be a butterfly from time to time and land upon a different way of seeing, but the only way to do this is letting go of what you think you should be making photographs of. more
Three Rocks, The Butt of Lewis
The textures and patterns, angles and structures are visible amid the many seabirds that cling to the rocks and swoop in and out of the waves. more
The Sublime Landscape
At its best, sublime landscape photography reminds us of the (literally) awesome power, and beauty, of nature. more
The Way We Were
Over-walked paths are growing with fresh wildflowers, ferns trampled in river gorges are bursting upwards towards the light; joyful in their isolation. more
Love Dandelions
Could we use our creativity and skill, our dedication and commitment, to raise the profile of specific issues and/or might we link in with the scientists from Wildlife Trusts, conservation bodies and local universities? more
The Value of Things
I am trying to say something about fragility and vulnerability too. Not just my own, but that of the landscape itself, which is threatened by development and habitat destruction, and all the more so because most assume there is nothing of value here. more