You’ve found the perfect spot. The light is beautiful, and the landscape is everything you hoped it would be. You make a photograph. Check the back of the camera. Adjust the composition. Make another. Perhaps the light will improve. Maybe you should try another lens. And then, almost as quickly as it arrived, the light…

Physically, we’re here. But mentally, we are often somewhere else entirely. We walk through beautiful places while thinking about work. We sit with the people we love while wondering what needs doing tomorrow. We watch the sunset as we reach for our phones.  Even in the moments we’ve deliberately set aside for ourselves, our minds…

What kind of photographer are you? It’s a question photographers are asked surprisingly often. For many of us, the answer comes easily: I’m a landscape photographer. It’s a useful label. People instantly understand the kind of photographs we make and the places we’re drawn to. But for many landscape photographers, not everything we want to…

Modern life has brought remarkable convenience, but it has also come at a cost.  We are more connected than ever before, yet many people feel increasingly stressed, anxious and overwhelmed.  We spend more time indoors, move less, stare at screens for longer and leave little room for creativity or quiet reflection. Ironically, the things most…

Have you ever looked back through your photographs and felt strangely disconnected from them?  You remember taking them, but they don’t quite feel like yours. They’re technically sound, beautifully composed, perhaps even worthy of praise, yet they leave you cold. If someone told you they’d been taken by another photographer, you might believe them.  It’s…

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…