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Musings on: Easter Island as a location for photography
I have mixed feelings about Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it’s more evocatively called. On one hand it’s a very special place to visit, in several different ways; on the other hand, I found it...
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Locations for photography: the Howgill Fells
I shall start by saying that this is an excellent place to go with a camera. It needs a bit of thought, but the potential is enormous. The ‘why’ of that follows… The Howgill Fells: Wainwright’s...
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Why I ‘need’ to return to the Bolivian Altiplano and the Atacama desert
I am so very tempted to simply write “because it contains some of the most fabulously beautiful landscapes I’ve ever seen”, but that would be, it could be argued with a degree of fairness, a little...
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Musings on: bonsai landscapes in the US south-west
For my first article about the western desert of the US, a few thoughts about how preconceptions of landscapes, as well as the circumstances in which we visit them, can affect our approach to...
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Locations for photography: Antelope Canyon, Arizona – one piece of advice!
Go there, if you possibly can – but go at the ‘right’ time of year! I strongly suspect that the majority of people reading this will already know what Antelope Canyon, near Page, Arizona is, and what...
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Locations for photography: Death Valley National Park, California
I’ve long wanted to go to Death Valley; now I want to go back sometime – very much so! I thought I’d post a short piece to give my impressions of Death Valley and to say that it’s by far my favourite...
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Musings on: not being eaten whilst photographing landscapes
We’re lucky with our wildlife in the UK. We don’t have: Bears: black, brown, grizzly or polar Big cats: OK, there may be a few on the loose, but they’re at best very elusive! Snakes: yes, there are a...
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Locations for photography: Zion National Park, Utah
I spent four nights in Zion and made not a single ‘big landscape’ image Perhaps that sounds odd, in that Zion is a vast canyon with soaring, near-vertical rock walls and a generous helping of overall...
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Locations for photography: Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
My final ‘locations for…’ item from the US Were I to write about all of the remainder of the locations we visited in the US recently, and which I’ve not yet talked about in the last few articles, I’d...
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Locations for photography: Lofoten (preface)
I’ve recently returned from a week in the Lofoten islands in the north of Norway; the Arctic in fact. I shall write an article in the not too distant future about my impressions of the place; this is...
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Locations for photography: the Lofoten Islands, Norway
To avoid any doubt introduced by the scant mention of negatives below… I’m loath to be too gushing (just on general principle!) but Lofoten is unequivocally a fabulous place to visit in winter, both...
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Locations for photography: the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Writing about the Salar de Uyuni as a photographic destination and avoiding producing a simple eulogy for this astounding location is going to be difficult and, to be honest, I’m not going to try...
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