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Potsherding
‘Potsherding’—that is, methodically plodding the newly ploughed sweetcorn fields of southeastern Massachusetts looking for indigenous people’s artefacts in the fresh furrows. more
The Body Keeps the Score
The title of my miniature project comes from a book I found on my mum’s shelves as I cleared the house. more
Disinterested Interest
The quality that distinguishes aesthetic judgment from other forms of judgment, is what Kant referred to by a term that, to the misfortune of present-day English speakers, had been confusingly translated as, “disinterestedness.” more
The Eyewitness Tradition
Photography is so ubiquitous, universal and essential to the normal functioning of modern life that it is easy to forget it has not been with us forever. more
Losing Your Way
There are several stages in the creation of an image, and all can have a substantial outcome on its final appearance and the impact to the viewer. The beginning is evident. We head out into the landscape with our cameras and we do this for several reasons. more
My Important Way
Experiences are the building blocks of life. If making a popular and lucrative photograph requires that one eschew more elevated and personally meaningful experiences, even if yielding no product, then I say: to hell with that photograph. more
QT Luong – Portrait of a Photographer
QT Luong was the first person to photograph all 62 National Parks, an impressive feat on its own right; however, he did so with a large format film camera. more
A Year of Photographs
Not necessarily my best pictures of the year, they are nevertheless ones that I am fond of, or intrigued by…and which haven’t yet appeared in On Landscape! The captions aim to provide a little background to their origins, and why I chose them. more
Mindfulness With a Twist
When I practice mindfulness, I don’t aspire to rid myself completely of strong emotions. My goal, instead, is to filter my emotions and keep only those that are most elevating and beautiful, even if painful and difficult. more
Ruminations of an Optical Neurotic
The creative approach is always to work within the limitations available to us at the time and come up with the best solution, certainly not to regret the lack of a particular focal length, or an exotically-priced superior alternative. more
Professional Freedom
The camera has been part of some of the most powerful, emotional, contemplative, and consequential experiences in my life. more
Water and Fire
At grassroots level, as well as governmental. As photographers, we can share our ideas, our images, our concern and our determination. more
The Experience is All
I have found that in order to make my most meaningful and expressive photographs I had to learn to put photography out of my mind—to not allow it any attention at all until called upon by some aspect of a meaningful experience to make a photograph. more
Nobody Expects the Inquisition!
One of my overarching motivations for photographing is to explore the gap between how the combination of my mind and eye apprehend reality and how a camera and lens render that. more
Colours of Summer
Everyone loves the long hot summer days, the short, warm nights, the bright greens of summer…everyone it seems, except grumpy old landscape photographers! more