Reflections

Paul Gallagher

For me, black and white photography has never been an effect or stylistic option. It is a way of understanding light, structure, atmosphere, and interpretation. Over time, I have come to realise that monochrome photography is not about removing colour, but about seeing differently.

Michael Pilkington

This article explores our philosophy of photographic development, from technical foundations and editing with intent to learning how to respond more personally and meaningfully to the landscape over time.

Michael Pilkington

If there is one attribute that has the power to transform your landscape photography, it is intent. Intent when making the photograph and intent when editing it.

Mark Lawrence

Discovering a fascinating beauty in the industrial wasteland alongside the Thames.

Paul Gallagher

Preconceptions often serve to misguide us as to what will come of reality.

Paul Gallagher

If we pursue landscape photography we are naturally inspired by the changes of the seasons. As summer gives way to autumn the colours are something to behold, similarly, as spring arrives, with it comes new life, fresh growth and the warming of the air. Each season is a new beginning. However, wi...

Paul Gallagher

To make any assumption that the Highlands of Iceland are an extension of, or similar to other areas of Iceland would be an entirely understandable error of judgement. Even if we are afforded the opportunity to see images of the Highlands, there do appear to be differences, but common qualities, n...

Paul Gallagher

For so many years now, and normally at this juncture during the summer season, my mind drifts off to other places. Mornings were you can see your breath as you close the front door behind you, the car heating is turned up and the sun has barely reached the horizon. A little while later the sun is...

Paul Gallagher

For some reason, winter makes me feel safe. I like the bite of the cold and wind whipping across my face, followed by the retreat to the warmth of the indoors as the day comes to a close with the failing light.

Paul Gallagher

When we consider photographing trees, the word ‘tree’ is in the title and often influences the way we see and make photographs of them. If we are subliminally instructing ourselves to photograph a 'tree', we will be inclined to adhere to the brief in mind and photograph the entire tree from base ...

Michael Pilkington

Much of landscape photography is built on the pursuit of simplicity, clarity and visual order. In this article, I reflect on my growing fascination with complexity and disorder in the natural world, particularly in woodland environments, and how learning to embrace chaos rather than exclude it ha...

Paul Gallagher

Each time I walked I became a little more familiar with my surroundings which I considered to be very familiar in the first place.

Michael Pilkington

It is not uncommon to shy away from what can be seen as the garish effects of IR in an image. However, treated sympathetically, it can still dominate an image and be pleasing to the eye.

Paul Gallagher

Many times, I have questioned what it is that inspires me to be out with a camera. The most straightforward answer to this question is being out in the landscape. I love it and always have, and to make photographs of landscapes is my main inspiration. I really do want to share with others what I ...

Paul Gallagher

Having traveled over most of the Scottish Highlands over the years it may come as no surprise that there are certain places that offer me, as a landscape photographer, a little more than others. The Outer Hebrides draw me to the vast, open, sandy beaches; Sutherland with its bleak wilderness back...

Paul Gallagher

I am not often known for including man made structures in my photographs and I would could be considered guilty for determined exclusion of them most of the time. The reason for this is, to me, I find them distracting in what I am trying to say with a photograph, which is often my appreciation of...