Jemima’s Blog | London

I took so many shots this year during August’s HMS that it’s taken me this long just to get through them. I’ve decided only to post up landscape shots as I want to integrate the other ones into a video podcast for Amplifico – if and when I get round to it.

If I learnt one thing from taking these photographs, its that great landscape photography is a lot harder than it looks. It’s not the sort of thing that can be accomplished in the half an hour between putting the tent up and heading up to the pub for a drink. Great landscape photographers might spend days going back to the same place to wait for the right light, and even then might not walk away with the perfect shot that they’d imagined. I think that a lot of it relies upon luck too, being in the right place at the right time.

Out of this bunch, I’m most pleased with the photos I took in Skye of and around the decaying castle atop the hill overlooking the town with the bridge in the distance. The weather wasn’t fabulous, but the view with the low lying cloud was pretty dramatic, whether or not I caught the atmosphere right or not is different question.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 at 5:32 pm and is filed under Landscape.