As a landscape and wildlife photographer for 30 years, I now make short films about landscape and nature photography. What I hope to bring to you are my personal experiences whilst making new images in the field, surrounded by beautiful scenery and all that lives within it. As a trained ecologist, in these videos I will also, when possible, point out some of interesting things that can be found in nature. I have a slow, methodical and often meditative approach to my fieldwork as this helps me to connect and see my subjects in a more artistic and meaningful way. This is particularly the case with my intimate scenes and close-up work.
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That first shot, the daisies, it's not for me. I find images where nothing is sharp very difficult - I can't stop myself seeing them as focusing failures, even when I know this is not the case. My problem, not yours! I liked the next two shots immediately on seeing them on the back of the camera, and they cleaned up even better. A great start to a day!
Thank you, Simon, for investing yourself in this kind of small scale, almost hyperlocal art. What you are doing is very close to my own heart, and I am grateful to have discovered you. 🙏
As always, I have enjoyed being lead through your process and learning from you about the local flora and fauna. Lovely images and a wonderful reminder that you can find images anywhere.
Beautiful Simon - I love those abstract blue hour images. Very dreamy and calming. I also liked the soldiers ones. Lovely to have somewhere close to home like that.
I feel your frustration Simon regarding the audio. Even with the challenges you captured the sounds of a Song Thrush. I love the way you describe your process and the outcomes. Gorgeous.
Dear Simon, your local photography encouraged me to bring my camera on every day’s walk with the dog for the last year. Printed my first album “walking the dog” a couple of weeks ago. Very pleased with it. Thank you for the inspiration. Jack.
Hi Simon, I had a trip to Kintyre myself, last week, it was my second visit (first being last october) I came across the rocks you photographed, on another beach further down the coast, they are spectacular & so interesting, what was also interesting about your video was the colours you pointed out, the grey/green colour of the rock was what stood out to me, but you seen the red veins in the rock, great to get another perception on such a great subject I spent the best part of 2 days photographing them.
What a beautiful nature preserve so close to home. I know I have used this word “ethereal” before to describe the feeling I get when viewing your images, but words like sublime, heavenly, exquisite just don’t work for me. What a cool thing you did loading your images into an exhibition space. Interesting. Assuming that it was an AI thing? Anyway that was cool. Have a good week and thank you Simon.
Another wonderful and inspirirng video, Simon! Your photos were all beautiful in unique ways. It's a good reminder that there is beauty all around us and we do not need to travel far to find it...we just need to open our eyes to see it.
I get so tired of RU-vid photo channels travelling the country/world to take images of places and things known to produce good images. A hundred photographers gathered around an object waiting for the right light and for all the world looking like a bunch of sad, old doggers. So this was both interesting and inspiring. Thanks
another masterclass Simon 🙂 I'm pretty well confined to my garden right now but it's repaying me for collecting some wild seeds, etc last year with a quite lovely wild flower display - herb robert, marsh wilow herb, red and white clover, daisies, milkweed, common mouse-ear - lovely stuff. been experimenting with softer focus too so the daisy image hit the spot!
Simon, I'm always amazed at how many times I say to myself "I gotta try that!" when I watch your videos. Don't fret too much about the sound issues...I guess microphones don't really function well at 4:30 a.m.! Lots of Ox-eye Daisey here in western Wisconsin. Unfortunately, it's an aggressive invasive. Wish we could go back to the 19th Century and stop a lot of the cross-continent "plant-swapping" that went on.
Fantastic collection of photo's as usual. Personally not so keen on the Oxeye Daisy abstract. My eyes are desperately trying to find something to focus on. But that's the way my brain works!. Much prefer the one with the grasses where there is a small part of the scene in focus.
I went from the Pentax K10D to the Pentax K1 Mark II The 645 z or the 645D was always out of my price range I am very lucky to get the K1 Mark II for the price I got
Don't you just love using the Pentax 645Z or the D I forget which one you got Crisp clean beautiful images Yes the Pentax 645Z or the Pentax 645D is a medium format 50 megapixel they are the bit on the heavy side but look it's a beauty you get from it
I loved this! Sadly I haven't been around too much for a while now but I found you this morning and enjoyed watching your process like before. I have some natural areas where I live but they don't have the plant varieties you have there...and the pool was lovely! Never take for granted for ability to walk, Simon. I'm a handicapped photographer and I get some decent shots but sadly they are mostly taken from the car or my Rollator. Loved the video.
How wonderful that you still have the urge to make photographs despite the challenges you face. You are an example to those of us who often can’t be bothered. Good for you!
