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Issue 248
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Endframe: Hoarusib River Bed by David Ward
Julia Moffett chooses one of her favourite images
Book Reviews
Arild Heitman, Adam Gibbs & Hans Strand
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Andy Gawthrope, George Bull, Subham Shome & Tom Zimberoff
The Art and the Artist
Driven by one's creative urges
Letter To The Lakes
A project on Postboxes
Elvis Dallie
Featured Photographer
Sarah Marino – Portrait of a Photographer
An Intimate Relationship with the Landscape Through Smaller Scenes
Potsherding
Lessons in Discovery, Storytelling & Conservancy
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My name is Tim Parkin and I’m a gloveaholic. My problem started when I began photographing in cold conditions in Yorkshire and my first fix of fleecy gloves was bought. The biblical rain that followed (a typical Yorkshire summer) soaked them through and so, on a trip to the Lake District, I bought a pair of waterproof gloves. Both of these weren’t great at operating the camera and so I bought a pair of fingerless gloves, all photographers want to look like Fagin, don’t they. These were great - but a bit cold at times and so I bought a big pair of gloves to go over the top.
For a moment I was happy. For a moment. Then, on a trip to Scotland, the cold got to me. I needed something meaty! A pair of guides gloves was bought .. and a pair of liner gloves. Plus I couldn’t resist a pair of mittens at the same time. These worked so well but superfluity of gloves brought with it a new problem. I couldn’t decide which gloves to take out and so nearly always ended up with three or four pairs in my bag. My waterproof gloves were wearing out at this point (buy cheap, buy twice) and so I decided to review a few replacements for On Landscape. Now I have eight pairs of gloves and I was under the impression that had reached an equilibrium. One in - one out, right?
Things were not OK - I went to Iceland and things got really cold and my warm gloves got wet. I bought another pair of thicker guide gloves and also some more liner gloves.
Things might have been good at this point in time apart from the fact that after moving to Scotland, me and Charlotte started to go mountaineering. I’ve since been banned from visiting the Montane and Mountain Equipment glove pages and had my British Mountaineering Club discount card locked away.
I recently read an article about going out mountaineering in Scotland that said some people may take three or even four pairs of gloves out with them when our on the hills in winter. Oh how I laughed! I’ve just sent a letter to them, informing them that “some people take six or seven pairs of gloves out with them”. My name is Tim Parkin and I’m a gloveaholic.
Does anybody else have a glove problem? Any solutions? Please let me know!
Tim Parkin
Issue 248
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Endframe: Hoarusib River Bed by David Ward
It was 2017, for months and months I had seen the occasional “elephant passing through our camp” snapshot. But there had been no sign of any of David Ward’s heart stopping, beautiful, keep you looking over and over again pictures. Then this appeared. Perhaps cool water to a parched throat, but pwhooar! I am not even sure if it is the first one he posted after a couple of years during which he left both camera and social media pretty much more
Book Reviews
Arild Heitmann - Heime Arild Heitmann’s portfolio is not short of the sublime images that many photographers aim for (but mostly miss). He has many photographs drawn from trips to the mountains of Italy or Iceland or of the iconic Arctic hotspots of Lofoten or Sejna. But it’s the photographs he takes from his backyard on the mainland of Arctic Norway, a literal hinterland, that are the subject of his more
Subscribers 4×4 Portfolios
Welcome to our 4x4 feature which is a set of four mini landscape photography portfolios submitted from our subscribers: Andy Gawthrope, George Bull, Subham Shome & Tom Zimberoff more
The Art and the Artist
There are many who live their lives as artists but earn a living in other professions (or perhaps are fortunate to not have to earn a living at all), and there are also many professional artists for whom art is primarily a means of earning income rather than an expression of an intensified life. more
Letter To The Lakes
Despite the fact they stand out like a sore thumb, tall, upright and red, there was something about them nestled into such a bucolic setting that I found quite romantic. more
Elvis Dallie
We each have our own individual sense of direction: one person walks past it and the other sees something beautiful in it. It is also a matter of feeling and different taste. I go purely on my gut feeling; what speaks to my heart. more
Sarah Marino – Portrait of a Photographer
Truth be told, I personally think Sarah is one of the most talented and inspirational nature and landscape photographers of our time, not only for her masterful images but also her philosophical mindsets which are foundational to her photo-making approach and her success in making wonderful and unique images. more
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