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Imaginary Departures
These four photos, taken at different times, and different, but similar, places in Svalbard, Iceland and Antarctica bring to me the idea of a departure to an unknown, unseen destination. I also find in them the idea of a temporary haven, a brief respite from the storm. They're also all taken in areas of quite spectacular landscape, but which I've turned my back to, at least for a while. And of course they share a common format. There was more
Accidental Artists
I often find myself when I'm reviewing images saying things like "you know, that looks a bit like ...." I'm sure that I'm not unique in this and, in my case, it probably betrays a life-long frustration at my inability to paint anything other than a skirting board. However, these four images (amongst many others) struck me as being reminiscent of the work of some of the artists near to my heart, in this case Bonnard, Monet, Klimt and Kandisnky. I would more
Morning in Kimmeridge Bay
The British coastline has so much to offer that we are really spoilt for choice. I know Kimmeridge Bay is one of the most photographed and popular locations in England. However I still wanted to experience it myself. All these images were taken within a couple of hours I spent there from the blue hour until the tide forced me out of the beach. The sunrise was not spectacular more
4×4 Porfolio
Our new feature this issue is 4x4, a set of four mini portfolios each consisting of four images related in some way. If you would like to submit your own 4x4 portfolio please visit this page for submission information. Mike Green Vanda Ralevska Nigel Clarke Julian Barkway more
Metropolitan Trees
As someone who regularly travels to cities across the world, I enjoy the way trees and the buildings that make up our cities co-exist. In this set, three images are from London and one from New York and I like the way those naked twigs and branches have such wonderful shapes and structures. more
Letters on the land
I've been subconsciously drawn to recognisable patterns on the land for some time now. These images span two years - over half my photographic 'career' - and it took me some considerable part of that to recognise that I was frequently composing frames based on common glyphs. That is, I was seeing and using familiar markings, such as letters, as the starting point for my images. Naturally, when I more
Tufa Cascades of the French Jura
Picking a theme that is not geographically based is, I feel, a near impossibility with landscape photography - geography is our stock-in-trade, after all! So I decided to concentrate on the two similar tufa formations to be found within 50km of each other on the western fringes of the Jura mountain range, which neatly straddles the border between France and Switzerland. I have been visiting these sets of cascades, more
Foreshore – Light and colour
The images do link geographically in that I made them all within a two mile radius of each other and they also form part of a wider photographic geology project which, although my own, is running with the consultation of others. This is ongoing and concentrates on the geology of a specific area. More specifically, the four images form a theme within the project as I find myself more
Ice Jewels of Jökulsárlón
I visited Iceland in my youth as part of a school geology trip but retuned there for the first time in over 35 years on a photographic workshop last year. The weather was pretty atrocious, especially when we visited the glacial lagoon at Jökulsárlón, where the icebergs carved from the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, get washout into the sea, many of which are broken up and scattered upon the black volcanic more
4×4 Portfolios
Our new feature this issue is 4x4, a set of four mini portfolios each consisting of four images related in some way. If you would like to submit your own 4x4 portfolio please visit this page for submission information. Dave Kosiur Doug Chinnery Jim Robertson John Birch more
Lone Trees in the Snow
Putting a set of four coherent images together is more of a challenge than I first thought, especially as it was at short notice and I didn't want them to be a collection grouped by a single location. In fact, after almost an hour of puzzling over images in Lightroom and my deadline looming I decided to wimp out and take the easy option. Lone trees in the snow. Easy because more
Joshua Tree NP
Part of a study of the textures of rock formations at Joshua Tree National Park, CA. Taken in early 2012. Link to your website more
4×4 Portfolios
Our new feature this issue is 4x4, a set of four mini portfolios each consisting of four images related in some way. If you would like to submit your own 4x4 portfolio please visit this page for submission information. John Irvine Nigel Flory David Higgs Adam Pierzchala more
Naturally Simple
A snowfall had simplified an otherwise messy grassy bank and these skeletons of weeds took on a wonderful graphic appearance, isolated against an almost white background. more
Touch the Trees
These are four images from 'Touch the Trees' which is an all monochrome series of large format images of the Weald and Ashdown Forest. more