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Landscape Photography – why?
Landscape photography is a strange game. You spend ages sitting watching a rock waiting for it to do something interesting, then suddenly it lights up and you’ve got a photograph. Or you drive out of town towards the hills in perfect conditions just for it to turn flat grey and boring as soon as you open the car door on arrival. Sometimes times it feels like there isn’t a good photograph to be had in a hundred miles. Other times it feels almost too easy.
It can be almost as much of a psychological game as it is a visual craft. read more…
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011
At the start of the year I submitted a handful of my photographs to the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition – I guess I wanted to see how I measured up. If you have never heard of the competition, suffice to say that it’s one of the biggest in the country. I’d forgotten all about it in themonths in between, but last week I received an email telling me that one of the photographs from Glasgow has been Commended This means that not only has it been included in the book but it will also be on display in the National Gallery in London between the 5th December and the 28th Janurary. read more…
Through the Pinhole (just for the hell of it).
I spend my life photographing all sorts of things: weddings, air festivals, climbing, landscapes, more weddings, kids, weddings…. I even just finished a project for the ESRC on adolescent self harming. I love my job: I never know what I’ll be doing next! I noticed recently though that I no longer tend to tend to just pick up the camera of an evening and go for a wander to see what I can see: just shoot for the sheer fun of it with no agenda other than going home with a good image in the bag. read more…
Windermere Air Festival
I defy any man of any age not to regress to an excited child at the sight of a Red Arrows display…. If that display is performed over Lake Windermere instead of a strictly functional air base then all the better! Add to that a visit from a Hurricane, Spitfire and a Lancaster Bomber flying formation for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and then the gut wrenching, body slamming roar of the last flaying Vulcan and it all adds up to a pretty damn good weekend. read more…