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Janet Tavener
I was drawn to Janet’s images by their fluid beauty but they may challenge you to think about your own definition of photographic genre, for all that we do is interconnected and our path into revelation may be our own life experiences. more
Isabel Díez
Water has been present in my photographic work from the beginning, but it is becoming increasingly important. Fluidity gives me peace. more
Astrid Preisz
Nothing in this world is the same twice, and I began to realise that my images could be what they needed to be, and that they followed who I was at a particular moment in a particular place and time. Inwardly, I stopped more and more calling myself a landscape photographer or a nature photographer or even a photographer or an artist. more
End Frame: No Smoke Without Fire by Joe Cornish
Starting with the broad elements, we seem to have a sort of paradise in the background, full of light, leaves, green, and ephemeral light and, seemingly, some sort of hell archetype in the front, scorched earth, scattered debris and all the evidence of the fire. more
End frame: Rùm Sunrise, Inner Hebrides by Joe Cornish
Rùm’s soaring profile catching the warm light just after sunrise was crying out to be photographed, and I assume Joe knew about this particular wave-cut platform on the Isle of Eigg and that it would one day make a useful foreground. more
Woodland Sanctuary – Book Review
Alongside the exhibition by Joe Cornish and Simon Baxter detailed elsewhere in this issue, the two photographers also collaborated on a book to work alongside it (and as a showcase for those unable to visit the exhibition). more
10 Years of Seaworks
The exhibition is entitled ‘Ten Years of Seaworks’ and the pictures on display were made between 2008 to 2018. more
Natural Landscape Photography Awards Book
My last few weeks of 2021 were spent immersed in the world of photography books. And, for a change, I wasn’t looking at other people’s books but designing one of my own. more
End frame: Submergence by Joe Cornish
I have spent so many hours photographing abstracts on the English coast and the print of Submergence evokes many memories. more
Arctic Tundra
In the early autumn of 2019, I was privileged to be one of twelve photographers, led by Anthony Spencer and Joe Cornish on a photographic “expedition” to the North East Greenland Coast. more
Lockdown Podcast #12
The weather is a continual topic of conversation for many living in the British Isles, and for landscape photographers, it becomes something of an obsession. more
Lockdown Podcast #11
After featuring two articles on tripods recently, a review of travel tripods and a short overview of tripod spikes, I thought a general chat with Joe and David about their own experiences with tripods would make interesting listening more
Lockdown Podcast #10
It's an idea that has its seeds in the romantic era of landscape painting when John Ruskin, a massively influential art critic and artist of the time, encouraged painters to closely observe the landscape. 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
End frame: Gateway to the Moors II, North York Moors by Joe Cornish
The golden light on the weathered, wooden finger-post sign, the positioning of the very top of the post against a darker background, the angles of the ‘fingers’ themselves and the intriguing, yet to be discovered, places with unknown names etched in timber and only a few miles away, by pleasant foot, in various directions. more
Lockdown Podcast #8
A short podcast this time as a few of you groaned at the amount of time you had to listen to us waffle for so this issue it's a thirty-minute dip into three topics. more
Lockdown Podcast #7
This issues podcast's topic is books and specifically, Joe and David's experiences making their first ones. more
Joe Cornish and Tim Parkin discuss Robert Adams and Beauty
The concept of ‘beauty’ often seems to be a dirty word to those photographers from a ‘contemporary/academic’ background. The use of beauty is considered too bright a light to be seen direct for fear you go blind to the meaning behind a work. more
Lockdown Podcast #6
Another instalment of the lockdown podcast where Tim Parkin, Joe Cornish and David Ward discuss a few questions around photography. more
Lockdown Podcast #5
Joe Cornish, Tim Parkin and David Ward talk about learning and teaching composition more
Lockdown Podcast #4
Finishing off the reader submitted questions and a reminder of the lockdown photo challenge more
Lockdown Podcast #3
We are looking at having a mini 'in your house' photography challenge. All three of us are going to give this a go and we invite anybody else who wishes to take part to submit some work. more
Lockdown Podcast #2
What we really want to do is to continue having these conversations but make things more interactive with our audience. So if you have any questions you’d like to address to Joe or David (or myself). more
Lockdown Podcast #1
Episode One Our Pilot Episode of the Lockdown Podcast You can listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast platform by going to our episode page. more
Roundtable Discussion on the Environment for Landscape Photographers
On our 200th issue, we decided to have a special Passing Through podcast. David Ward and Joe Cornish are running a workshop in the area and Ted Leeming and Morag Paterson are in Scotland. We decided to invite them to a roundtable discussion on what we as landscape photographers can do to help protect the environment and mitigate climate change. more
7 Principles to Reduce the Individual & Collective Impact of Nature Photography on Wild Places
Being part of the team that created the 7 Principles encouraged me to rethink my own behaviours and I have made some changes in response. more
Passing Through – Paul Pell-Johnson & Joe Cornish
In the first edition, we're talking to Paula Pell-Johnson of Linhof Studio and our own Joe Cornish where we cover ground from megapixels to film and some of the new products that Paula is excited about in the coming months. more
End frame: Lochan Na Staigne, Clach Leathad, Meall a Bhuiridh by Joe Cornish
This is a piece of art that opens up so many emotions. it uplifts whilst creating a sense of pathos, and is restful and energising at the same time as well as being dramatic and simple. more
Five Days in Glencoe
With Spring well and truly Sprung and summer on its way, we've taken the opportunity to reflect on some of the highlights of Winter. more
Endframe: ‘A view of Bossington Beach looking west, taken in the early morning’ by Joe Cornish
It was a moment that struck me immediately, a deeply visceral study of light, form, flow, textures, and gravitas. Here was a photograph that seemed to be about a time and place, not merely a documentary. more
Endframe: Upper Torridon, Winter Dawn by Joe Cornish
The midground provides a delicate connection between the upper and lower regions of the frame, with the two crops of land almost ‘reaching out’ to each other. more
This Land – Book Review
When I visited Joe at the start of last year, he told me about a book project he was just starting. We chatted a little bit about it but I didn’t want to know too much as one of my joys is to sit down with a good photography book and take in the whole thing in one glorious session. Over the next twelve months, I saw the product of various of Joe’s photo shoots with Roly Smith but I more
Endframe: Contours in Blue by Joe Cornish
The picture is primarily wave-worn undulating grey limestone rock, with some pebbles and small pools of sea water that are in the process of drying out. And yet what we see is definitely not it what it says on the tin’s list of contents. more
A Return to Iceland
I think it’s fair to say that Iceland has become a bit of a cliche for photographers. No matter where you look online there seems to be someone returning with pictures of clear ice on black sand, moss covered boulders and, in winter at least, swathes of “green shit in the sky”. Even two years ago when I visited with Joe Cornish to shoot the promotional videos for Phase One (one, two and three) I felt more
The Saltwick Challenge
Around midsummer Joe Cornish, David Tolcher, Andrew Nadolski and I decided we'd set ourselves a little challenge to turn up at the same location with a bunch of cameras and see what happened. As David Tolcher has a house in Robin Hood Bay we chose Saltwick Nab as a great location as the sun sets off to sea in the North at this time of year (well - North West obviously but that's up the coast in these parts). Each more
Joe Cornish – Reader’s Questions
Just before Christmas we asked our readers for a bunch of questions that we could put to Joe Cornish when he visited next and the response was fantastic. more
First Light – Joe Cornish
I first read Joe Cornish’s First Light about 7 years ago and it had a dramatic effect on my photography. First Light is not - as you might think - about the light first thing in the morning but about the light coming first. This could be first thing in the morning or the evening or infact any time of the day, but what is important is the quality of the light. The book is split into 7 chapters more
Photography and the World of Books – a Talk by Joe Cornish
Joe Cornish spoke of his early influences including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and John Blakemore, important for their photography and their way of thinking. more
With Landscape in Mind
Last week my wife and I accompanied Joe Cornish to a small cinema in Hyde Park, Leeds. Despite the strong temptation, we weren't going to see 'Kung Fu Panda 3D' and definitely not 'Hangover 2'. This was 'Joe Cornish 1' in a leading role in 'With Landscape in Mind', a production by Environment Films. Joe is only credited as 'presenter' but this is 'about' Joe Cornish and covers a more
A Photographer at Work – Eddie Ephraums & Joe Cornish
I don't think there are many UK based landscapers who don't list Joe as an influence or inspiration in their work. Over the last 20 years or so, Joe has emerged, following in the footsteps of Charlie Waite, as one of our finest landscape photographers. more
Hindsight – Lairig Ghru
Joe Cornish spent some time talking about a set of pictures taken on one of his trips from the Scotland's Mountains work. more
Hindsight – Etive and Orchy
We're taking a little detour in our Hindsight series with a video covering two complementary images from Joe's Scotland's Mountains book more
Hindsight – Cairngorms
In this Hindsight Joe Cornish talks about three pictures taken in the Cairngorms for Scotland's Mountains. more
Aspect Ratios – Part 1
For photographers of a certain (ahem) age, the aspect ratio of 35mm film, 24mm x 36mm (ie 2x3), was fed to us like mother’s milk. more
Hindsight – Scotland’s Coast
Our Hindsight series continues on with a series of pictures from Scotland's Coast. more
Hindsight – Hardcastle Crags
‘Hindsight’ screencasts - we review a picture that works well, a picture from the same session that didn’t quite make the grade and a shot that was archived. more
Borders Sunset
We will be concentrating on how to make pictures work better; How to balance light, emphasise structure and guide the eye. more