This series of articles on photography – or web journal, or blog – documents my evolving thoughts on photography and the photographic process, primarily covering the making of landscape images. I’ve written pieces on the making of specific images, favourite locations for photography, some technology topics, and many essays, or musings, on approaches to landscape photography: how to do things, when and with whom, and sometimes ‘why’. As I say, these are evolving thoughts, and I hope to see for myself how my views change as I develop as a photographer. I typically add a new post every one or two weeks, but sometimes they’re a little more frequent, and occasionally there may be a slightly longer gap between articles.

My inspiration

When making photographs, I primarily look for patterns in the landscape: unusual geometry, shapes, and graphic combinations of lines and textures. My inspiration also lies in capturing and interpreting those types of light which are less familiar. Currently, I create many of my landscape images when the Sun is either below the horizon or thoroughly hidden by cloud, revealing the subtlety of colours inherent within water, rock and foliage.

Having travelled widely, and been an active mountaineer on four continents, I am now keen to use my experience of the many forms of light I’ve seen to envisage and create photographs which capture the character of those wild landscapes, and I’m using photography as a reason to revisit favourite countries and locations.

My approach is to make images which show how I see the landscape, rather than to present an authentic copy of reality in the form of a photograph.

My location and other sites

I’m based in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, in the north of England. More of my work may be viewed on my portfolio site or on my Flickr photo stream, both of which contain images from various photographic trips in the British Isles and South America.

If you’d like to read about my capture and post-processing work-flow, please see this item under the ‘Technical articles’ drop-down on the menu below the top banner photograph. Additionally, there is an interview with me as ‘featured photographer’ in issue 19 of Great British Landscapes magazine.

And if you’d like to follow me on Twitter, my username is @mikegreenimages

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