JOE CORNISH

Joe Cornish

Joe was born in Exeter in 1958, he went to reading university and studied art.

His love for the outdoors encouraged him first to pursue travel work, when he first met Charlie Waite in 1986 this helped provide both an important and outgoing source of inspiration friendship and natural cooperation.

Around 1991 he began a working relationship with the national trust photolibrary that still continues to this day.

The North York moors are Joes personal favourite place, he also likes other outstanding landscapes of northern England and these are all a source of inspiration for Joe and not too far away.

He also has a deep affinity for Scotland’s magnificent coast and mountains and he has travelled widely throughout the UK for the National trust, specialising in particular on the coastline.

Joe has continued to be involved in books, having contributed heavily too many National Trust publications, especially coast and countryside published in 1996.

His first book as an author was first light a landscape photographers art 2002 now is in it firth printing.

More recently he wrote and photographed Scotland’s coast photographer’s journey and shot the pictures for Urbino, (a hill town in central Italy) a rare departure into architectural photography.

In 1999 Joe started Joegraphic with designers Joni and Joe Essex, a business devoted to producing a range of cards and calendars. This has since grown and its now developing into “Joe Cornish Galleries “ as a trademark it includes the production of limed edition prints two galleries and embraces a publishing programme that also features the work of other fine photographers.

Joe has given lectures on landscape photography throughout the UK and as far New Zealand.

He is also coming to Burton Collage on the 8/12/2010 to give a lecture on landscape so it will be nice to meet him and hopefully learn from him.

DRYSTONE WALL, WINTER DAWN

A sharp frost can create a myriad of opportunities, and this drystone wall had the remnants of the previous day's frost intact on its north side.

BEACH PEBBLES, FLADDABISTER, SHETLAND

The pebbles are wet and make this photo look sharp and clean and the colours stand out.

FERNS AND RANSOMS

Soft shadowless lighting avoids excessive contrast.

DARK DAY LIGHT, RANNOCH MOOR

The shape and rhythms of the land are on a grand scale and the composition is intended to reflect this.

The river makes you follow it with your eyes.

DARK SUN RISING, SOUND OF RAASAY

Shooting it to the sun is normally a technical disaster, but here the clouds are thick enough to risk it.

SUMMER EVENING ABOVE SWAINBY

The success of the picture owes almost everything to the sky.

OFFSHORE SQUALL, WEST PIER, WHITBY

The causeway makes your eyes follow it and makes you focus on the sky as well.

ST MARY'S LIGHTHOUSE

A mellow evening light and the encroaching tide have softened the hard angularity of the foreground rocks in this composition.

TOM MACKIE

Tom Mackie has been a photographer all his working life.

His degree in commercial photography took him first to Los Angeles, where he spent five years as an industrial photographer. It was when he was travelling he found his love for landscape photography.

Moving to the UK in 1985 he pursued a full time career as a landscape photographer.

He works with digital panoramic and large format equipment.

Tom understanding of light and bold use of colour becomes a hallmark that established his reputation.

Tom now holds workshops for his work both in the UK and worldwide, he has now published a few books which are:-

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER SECRETS this book is revealing the secrets of his methods.

PHOTOS WITH IMPACT this book contains images and Tom describes in detail how readers can achieve the same image.

THE DIGITAL SLR EXPERT LANDSCAPE the first title in a new photography series presents a comprehensive guide to taking fantastic landscape photographs using a digital SLR.

 Tom is a photographer who is good in every area his work consists of garden, North America, Europe worldwide architect panoramic and nature.

I like his work because of the simplicity of it he photographs he also just photographs parts of things (one leaf, a window, or just one flower) his use of colour and boldness of an object is present in most of his images.

I have chosen some images that i like and that i feel i could achieve

This picture is interesting the use of colour with the yellow tulip with all the red draws you attention to it. The depth of field is really used well in this image with the tulips being out of focus in the distance. 

The rule of the thirds is present in this picture as the puffins eye are on the top line and the feet on the bottom. Even though this picture is not very colourful the red of his beak and feet really stand out. With the image being close you can also feel the textures in this image.

He has framed this picture well with the big stone being in the middle.

The use of Autumn colours is used very well in this image and the tonal range is present hear.

This is a very simple picture and the use of colour and framing is present and he has worked in square format.

This picture is of grape vines this is not possible for me to copy as we have not got them around us but this would be possible to do with corn,rape or even maze field.

The use of colour is amazing in this picture with the flour being so bring, you feel as if you can reach out and touch the flour, the dept of filed is used very well and the focal point being very obvious in this image.

Most of Toms images are done in a square format and i think this frames the image very well.

Tim Flach

Tim Flach is well recognised both in America and Europe for his work on Animals and their relationship with the environment in which they live.

He was born in London and also studied communications design between 1977 and 1980. He then studied painted structures and photography at central Saint Martin’s college of art between 1982 and 1983.

His work on animals and their relationship with the environment have been exhibited in several places in America. He has also exhibited his fine art work in London.

His work has been recognised by many organisations and journals and over the years has won numerous awards in the photography world in several countries including France the USA and England.

His work has also featured in many magazines and publications including the National Geographic and Sunday Times Magazine.

Between 2002 and 2005 he was a director of the association of photographers. He has remained a member and has judged many competitions including Hasselblad Master and Wildlife Photographer of the year run by the National History Museum in London.

His career has also included lecturing in many British universities as well as giving talks on photography in Moscow, Dubai, Shanghai in China.

He has most recently published (September 2010) his second book which studies human/ animal friendships.

I like his work because he takes pictures of parts of animals like their nose, tail leg ect not just the whole body like a traditional picture.

Jonathan Chritchley

Jonathan Chritchley was born in Wimbledon London, but since 1998 lives in the south west coast of France.

Jonathan specialises in ocean photography, he says his fascination for the sea was because at the age of 14 he moved to the coastal town of Leamington a place renowned for sailing.

Jonathan's work is simple and mystical with his work being in black and white it looks Eire and sharp which makes you focus on a certain object or point. With using black and white you can create more atmosphere and makes objects sharper as the is no colour that draws you away form the subject/objects you are photographing.

Jonathan chooses to work with low light and when the weather is not at its best, he uses long exposure to create an almost impressive view of his subject.

A part of Jonathan's work is a collection called sails featuring historic sailing yachts from around the world he captures his images by both from the water on a speed boat, and from the air in a 2 man helicopter.

I have chosen these pictures because they are of Scotland which is a country that is close to my heart.

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 This is one of his sails collection

I also have chosen some of horses again being in black and white makes the picture so simple, Sharpe and clear.

Even though you have not got the horses head or body in this picture you can straight away know what it is and the textures look so real as if you could stroke it.

This is so simple but so effective, rule of thirds is present, the use of light is good makes it look like the sun is rising.

I like this picture because you get the sense of speed, the use of light that reflects of the horses backs, also the rule of thirds is present in this picture.