On Landscape - Passing Through

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. Trying to predict the perfect combination of factors that will give a cloud inversion or a misty woodland or a stunning sunset can be utterly frustrating. In this issues instalment of our lockdown podcast, we talk to Joe and David about their...

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. We cover a reasonable amount of ground and, once again, we hope you enjoying listening to them as much as we do recording them. Episode Eleven

Just before the New Year, Joe David and I recorded a podcast on the concept of “Truth to Nature”. 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 and in doing so capture the natural world as truthfully as possible. The idea then has its echoes...

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. It’s fairly freeform, as usual, although I promise that none of us had been drinking (we’re doing a New Year special...

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. Firstly, some thoughts about landscape photography as a genre – does it matter what it’s called and should we try other stuff? Secondly, what’s it like photographing at iconic, “overphotographed” locations and finally, because we all...

This issues podcast’s topic is books and specifically, Joe and David’s experiences making their first ones. Don’t forget, if you like these podcasts, please let us know and suggest a few topics we might discuss in the next one.

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. To those wishing to create works that reflect the natural beauty of nature, such an attitude seems anathema. Robert Adams strode a middle ground between these...

Another instalment of the lockdown podcast where Tim Parkin, Joe Cornish and David Ward discuss a few questions around photography including “How is the easing of lockdown affecting you?”, “How do you make the most of a photography workshop?”, “What makes a good photography book?”, “How do you see your photography changing over time?” and “Do you have any other non-photography creative outlets dur...

We finished our reader questions in the last Lockdown Podcase and so in this episode, I thought I’d ask about composition and whether Joe and David thought it was possible to teach, learn and how they go about it. We had a wide-ranging conversation and a few recommendations of book resources at the end. We hope you’re enjoying the podcasts as much as we’re enjoying making them.

We put a call out for question for our third lockdown podcast with Joe Cornish and David Ward. We managed to get through half of the questions last time and this issue we managed to complete the set. As mentioned in last episode, we are looking at having a mini ‘in your house’ photography challenge. All three of us are going to give this a go (me and David have done something, Joe is still cogitat...

We put a call out for question for our third lockdown podcast with  Joe Cornish and David Ward and the response has been fantastic. We’re going to have to split the questions across two chats so sorry if we miss your questions this time. As mentioned in this episode, 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 an...

I was having one of our regular chats with Joe Cornish last week to catch up on things and we both talked about making the most of the fact that we were both available to record some audio content for our readers. We’ve tried having online chats before but had problems with internet bandwidth when we were based in East Yorkshire. However, now we’re in the Highlands we were hoping that our increase...

Back in January, Mark was in between two workshops he as running based in Kentallen . This village is on the coastal road from Ballachulish to Oban and approximately 25 minutes from Glencoe. Tim and Mark met at the Joe Cornish Gallery when Tim had just started using his large format camera and since then Mark has transitioned from using large format to digital photography. In this podcast, Mark ta...

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 also. We decided to invite them to dinner followed by a roundtable discussion on what we as landscape photographers can do to help protect the environment and mitigate climate change. Our goal was to be specific a...

As Margaret Soraya was passing through Glencoe, she lives near Loch Ness, we enticed her to drop in with cake, tea and biscuits. The landscapes Margaret captures, typically on the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides, Inner Hebrides and Orkney Isles, are a reflection of her solo time in nature, being still and embracing quietude. In this podcast, Margaret talks about her exhibition and what she fi...

A couple of weeks ago, Al Simmons from Teamwork came to visit to demonstrate the latest camera system from Phase One, the Phase IQ4 150 and also the new technical camera solution, the Phase XT and its range of 23mm, 32mm and 70mm electronic-shuttered Rodenstock lenses. We went out to Glen Nevis to take a few photographs, test out a few features and, after coming back, recorded a chat about what th...