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There comes a point in many photographers’ lives when picking up the camera starts to feel like an effort. You still love photography. You still enjoy looking at other people’s work. You still promise yourself you’ll head out tomorrow. But somehow, the camera remains on the shelf. You begin to worry that you’ve lost your…

All photographers are on a journey to answer one simple question: what makes a good photograph? The central question we must continually ask is, is this any good? We ask it after we press the shutter. We ask after we upload it to Lightroom. And we ask before we share it online. Sometimes we ask…

The biggest threat to our development as photographers isn’t a lack of talent, poor equipment or even bad weather. It’s comparison. Social media can be a wonderful source of inspiration. Never before have we had access to so much extraordinary photography from so many talented people around the world. At its best, it encourages us…

Many photographers believe their biggest challenge is finding opportunities. A new location. More dramatic conditions. A different lens. But the truth is, landscape photographers face the age-old problem of infinite possibilities and finite time. Presented with so many possibilities, it’s easy to become paralysed by choice. Which location should you visit? Which subject do you…

I don’t like cameras. That might seem like an odd thing for a photographer to admit, but I’ve never been particularly interested in them. To me, a camera has always been a means to an end. That might be because, for the most part, the camera was never the thing holding me back.  My challenge…

Landscape photography often begins long before we pick up a camera. We study maps, check weather forecasts, research locations and develop a clear idea of the photograph we hope to create.  However, any experienced landscape photographer will tell you, the gods laugh when men make plans. Nature rarely cooperates, particularly here in the UK, where…

What is the real price of failure? Photography, like any creative medium, involves a degree of experimentation. And with experimentation comes uncertainty. We do not know what the outcome will be unless we try. But experimentation, by its very nature, rarely produces a fully formed idea. It is an iterative process that takes time and…

My friend, Steve Bennett, once joked that the best bit about being a photographer is the time between pressing the shutter button and seeing the image on the big screen, because “there’s still hope.” Most of us know exactly what he means. Few things are more frustrating than standing in front of a scene that…

Sharing our work is a big part of being a photographer. But most photographs on social media exist for just a few short minutes (if that). They appear briefly in somebody’s feed, collect a handful of likes, then disappear beneath an endless stream of newer content. Despite its incredibly short lifespan, social media can have…

One of the most limiting beliefs many photographers carry is this:“There is nothing interesting to photograph in my local area.” Most of the time, this simply isn’t true. With the growth of social media in recent years, our idea of “great” landscape photography has become increasingly narrow — to the point of cliché. We’ve been…