Ultra-w-i-d-e
Many photographers have a preferred genre, their comfort zone. A place where creativity arrives without conscious effort. For me, it’s ultrawide landscapes
In praise of trees
It might seem a bit odd starting an article on trees with something that is most certainly not a tree. For me though, it’s a tree in all but name.
Contract or assumption: what do I owe the viewer?
Is it realistic to expect a photographer to concern himself with his viewers expectation about the nature of photography?
Panoramas – taking the wider view
Exploring the potential of panoramas? From wide angle landscapes to more intimate close-ups.
From intentions to image – a worked example
In this article I describe some of the aesthetic decisions I made when processing a raw image file to get to this picture of Berwick Pier.
Landscape pictures are what, exactly?
Well, that’s an easy question to answer isn’t it? Landscape is a picture of natural beauty somewhere in the countryside. Isn’t it? There, done. We’ve put that in its box, move on. But not so fast. That just raises more questions than it answers.
Fiddlers Ferry Panorama 2011
This image was part of a panorama project I undertook for a client in Oldham in the UK. You can clearly see, from 40 miles away the Fiddler’s Ferry power station on the Manchester Ship Canal.