The expectation of landscape photography is to have the best light, the perfect leading line through the image, the immaculate reflection in the still water of a lake, the list of ‘conditions’ required for a landscape goes on.Īs landscape photographers we need patience, we need to sit down and wait for the light (which may or may not appear), we need to take time to perfect the composition. But sitting there, it felt incredibly calm and peaceful. The bitter cold wind in our faces is an accepted part of living by the coast. We sat on the bench, taking in the view.Īnd this is the cliche ‘light bulb’ moment. We reached a small clifftop, overlooking the water towards the North Wales coast, with slightly overgrown grass and a lone bench. Still, I took my camera with me ‘just in case’, as I always do. The weather was grey and overcast, the kind of weather we all dread as a landscape photographer. On one of the daily walks with my partner, we ventured to the outskirts of Beaumaris. Instead, my only option was to slowly explore the area during my daily exercise, of course always taking my camera with me. With such all year round fantastic light, I’d had plans of exploring the surrounding locations, especially the photographers hotspot of Penmon Point, a lighthouse at the North East tip of the island. As a landscape photographer, I was excited to have moved to a new area. Just four weeks prior to the nationwide lockdown I‘d moved to Beaumaris, a small seaside village on the Isle of Anglesey. Unless that light was within the daily allowance of an hours exercise which had started and ended at our front doors, highly unlikely for the majority of us. Chasing the light, as we all do, was no longer an option. It is a collection of images, born out of the restrictions placed upon us all during those first strange, abnormal changes to our daily lives.Īs landscape photographers we were no longer able to return to our usual locations to capture that elusive light and morning mist, we weren’t able to capture cloud covered mountain ranges or those life affirming coastal sunsets. This is a photographic project, which I started during the first lockdown of March 2020. However I do have a special affection for my Fujifilm cameras, the design, usability and colours produced from these camera is incredibly reminiscent of the days shooting film cameras. The days of shooting on film have long gone for me. I studied for a degree in photography at Blackpool & Fylde College, back in the days when spending hours in a dark room was the equivalent of Lightroom and Photoshop and you had to savour every frame taken on 35mm or medium format film! As a brief introduction, I am a forty something year old photographer, originally from Coppull, a small village in Lancashire but I have lived on the Isle of Anglesey for the last seven years.
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