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I have a strange relationship with my new photos. This is to do with working with film and its lack of immediacy, also because they are previously glimpsed more
An Englishman in the Dolomites
The reverence the Dolomites inspires is well deserved. They are unlike any mountain range I have seen, and for me, by far the most spectacular in the world. more
Photographers versus Image Libraries
Have you considered placing images with an image agency? Perhaps you have had work accepted by a library and are waiting for the money to start coming in? more
You’ve been Framed…
I wasn’t going to mention copyright/image size debate so soon but a blog post made me think more about my reasons for publishing images at a large size. more
Music and Photography
Having learned to play piano as an adult, and also became obsessed with landscape photography in my thirties, I’ve been amazed at the similar trajectories. more
Landscape photography saved my life!
I’ve run the picture operation at The Times for about 8 years, the pressure of searching 12,000+ images daily, seeking the ever elusive front page, is huge. more
Brand New Photographic Sensor
All I want is for people not to think of film as some defunct, irrelevant medium that even old fogies have ditched but as the culmination of a century of photographic progress and a valid alternative or addition to anyones photographic arsenal. more
Moving on Up
Having become a proponent of digital post production I still, however, try to create the image as far as possible in the field. For me, it is still about the art of photography rather than being a mouse master. more
Fix You
My photographic career/obsession/love/passion – call it what you will - began with a flattened instamatic 110 film camera. Sleek. Fitted the pocket. Easy load cassette film. It even extended to reveal the shutter release. As a bit of a gadget freak even then I confess to being instantly hooked though technical “control” was not one of its stronger points. And so I quickly progressed to my beloved Ricoh more
I am Camera
In actual fact, I am not, and therein lies the theme of this article. As human beings we all have command and control of a computer that far exceeds in sophistication and integration anything built by NASA, and yes, that is our brain. (If only it felt that way when I reach my afternoon 'dip' around 16.13 each day!). A great deal of the brain's performance is devoted to vision. more
Brockwell Park
Autumn in the walled garden I first wandered into Brockwell Park with a camera about five years ago, the park entrance being only a few metres from my front door. Before this it had been nothing more than a pleasant green space to cross on the way to the station at Herne Hill, or the venue for occasional summer picnics. When I could, I traveled to my more
Anthropomorphism in Landscape Photography
Seeing Ghosts? I keep seeing human behaviours and emotional states in photographic subjects which I know full well are not human and don't have such characteristics; trees, rocks, clouds, that sort of thing. In other words, I've recently been anthropomorphising images wildly. Obviously, I know I'm merely projecting these human characteristics, and I'll assert my confidence up-front that it's not just me sliding into early dementia here: Flickr and the like are awash, judging by the comments, with 'malevolent' weather more
Escaping the Rut
It’s inevitable that we all reach a point in our photographic journey when we begin to draw nothing but blanks. After downloading the contents of your memory card or getting your freshly processed images back from the lab, you realise that there isn’t even a single image amongst them of any worth. Weeks, or even months, without an image of note can begin to chip away at your creative more
Chelsea Flower Show – An Outdoor Gallery
David Anthony Hall is an Irish landscape photographer specialising in very large prints, mostly panoramas, of groups of trees (although this is not all he does). He has recently worked with a garden designer to produce an outdoor garden exhibition for the Chelsea Flower show... You've recently had your photographs used as part of an exhibit at the Chelsea Flower show. Can you let us know a little about how more
Light, Composition or Subject?
I’ve read a few times in the past months that ‘light’ is always the most important thing in photography. Every time I read this I’ve felt a little more uncomfortable. This week a colleague pointed out another occurence in the popular press and as I was in the process of writing a couple more articles I thought I had to respond. The only way to really address this is to look at potential permutations of these three aspects of photography more