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Issue 311
Browse On Landscape on your Tablet, iPad or Desktop
End frame: Zen Shadows in Snow by Nicholas Bell
Chris Murray chooses one of his favourite images
Matt Redfern
Featured Photograper
4×4 Landscape Portfolios
Josh Murfitt, Judith Linders, Xavier Arnau Bofarull & Steve Williams
Printing With Carbon Inks
When Only the Best Will Do
Jason Hatfield – Portrait of a Photographer
Courage, adventure and coming of age through nature photography
Making the most of your photography with older equipment
The skill of the person behind the lens
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I’ve just finished having a fantastic discussion with Guy Tal and Joe Cornish on our Any Question podcast (which will be published in late October). We covered quite a lot of ground but one of the topics I found interesting was about revisiting locations and how it can affect your originality. My take on the discussion was that, although you can have a personal take on a first encounter with a location, many other people can have that first impression too. Very few people spend the time, through opportunity or choice, to revisit locations and to get to know them well. This gives a great deal of opportunity for an original and personal reaction to location.
I’ve seen this happen while as I’ve been living in Lochaber over the last few years (Scottish Highlands, near Glencoe). I had been visiting for many years before moving up. Although my photography has slowed down recently, my immersion in the environment has completely changed what I notice as I travel around the mountains. Familiarity with the wildlife and flora makes me notice interesting and uncommon opportunities, and travelling beyond the well worn paths has revealed some extraordinary, beautiful and little visited scenes.
On that topic, I recently took part in Eric Bennett’s “Brews and Views” vlogcast (to be published in the next week, I think), which was great fun and an epic 3.5 hours long! I brought along my Fraoch beer, brewed from heather (appropriate at the moment) and half way through, Matt Payne and Eric Bennett staged a little ‘intervention’ telling me how much I needed to get out photographing more! I couldn’t agree more, and I’m hoping this autumn season will give me more opportunities to get out and take some photos (hopefully, we won’t have weather like August, which had 300% of average monthly rainfall!!).
The podcast with Guy Tal will be published in mid October, so keep your eye out. Eric’s “Brew and Views” should be out on Friday.
Tim Parkin
Issue 311
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End frame: Zen Shadows in Snow by Nicholas Bell
Beyond aesthetics, Nicholas’s work embodies the qualities that I value and strive for in my own photography. Subtlety, nuance, simplicity, and stillness are all traits that characterize his work. more
Matt Redfern
Even within an hour's radius of my home, I can point out the subtle changes in the landscape, such as the gradient of tree species encountered while driving through the Cascade Range. more
4×4 Landscape Portfolios
Welcome to our 4x4 feature, which is a set of four mini landscape photography portfolios which has been submitted by Josh Murfitt, Judith Linders, Xavier Arnau Bofarull & Steve Williams more
Printing With Carbon Inks
North Atlantic Cost of Spain: Dancer I learned to print on a Canon ImagePROGRAF PRO-1000: screen profiling, print adjustments using Red River ICC files, even some custom profiling. When I switched from color to black and white, it did not take long to realize that a printer designed for color, even with today’s technology, has its limitations. When I met Michael Gordon at his workshop in Death more
Jason Hatfield – Portrait of a Photographer
Jason has leveraged the trials and tribulations of trying to make full-time photography work by parlaying paid commercial opportunities to instill his goal of inspiring others into his work. I think he’s doing a fabulous job. more
Making the most of your photography with older equipment
Spending £1,600 on a compact camera with 40 megapixels or £6,000 on a 60 megapixel body is not something that the vast majority of amateur and professional photographers can justify. more