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Issue 221 PDF
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Travel Tripod Review
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been testing out a range of travel tripods. As with most of the testing we’ve done, it all starts with a personal question and ends up with me getting carried away. In this case, the personal ‘question’ came about because I wanted to go camping in the mountains and combine it with landscape photography. Typically the idea of lightweight camping is to get down to the minimum possible weight and still function safely and more
End Frame: Lake Baikal from Space by National Geographic and NASA
The majority of images within were shot from the Space Shuttle in the 1980s and ‘90s. There are some earlier ones from the Apollo programme as well. Most of the images are of the earth’s surface, with just a few concentrating on ionospheric meteorology, like auroras. more
Photography: An Art Born of Science
I have been fascinated by the gap between how I see and how the camera sees, by the gap between illusion and science. Like the prisoners in Plato’s Cave, I have stared at the flickering shadows and tried to divine what I can about reality. The tool I have chosen was, as I hope I have shown, forged in science. more
Lockdown Podcast #9
We return to the Lockdown Podcasts and in this instalment, Joe Cornish, David Ward and I discuss 'field practice'. By this I mean the way in which we go about finding images, what motivates us to go on a walk, what triggers our interest in a scene and how do we facilitate composing. more
Paul Wakefield
There is an inherent mystery and contradiction in Paul Wakefield’s work that keeps me returning to it. I will never be able to make pictures like Paul’s, nor should I try; perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn from another artist is authenticity, to simply be ourselves. more
Fragile by Colin Prior
What makes the project particularly interesting, and relevant, for us is that for each of the exquisitely captured photographs of bird eggs, there is an associated landscape photograph that represents the habitat in which the egg would be found and has been paired to also give an aesthetic complement more
Oleg Ershov
We have Guest Editor Joe Cornish to thank for pointing us in the direction of Russian photographer Oleg Ershov. more