On Landscapes

Level horizons are really just the tip of a critical iceberg. Here’s why you should consider going straight.

Many photographers have a preferred genre, their comfort zone. A place where creativity arrives without conscious effort. For me, it’s ultrawide landscapes

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.

Is it realistic to expect a photographer to concern himself with his viewers expectation about the nature of photography?

Exploring the potential of panoramas? From wide angle landscapes to more intimate close-ups.

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.

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.

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.