McKinnell Photography

Taking a Closer Look: The Landscape within the Landscape

Like many landscape photographers I started out trying to take photographs of the well known honey pot locations, trying to emulate the...

Photography Competitions - Valuable or Destructive

Landscape photographers have a plethora of competitions that are open to entry every year. The question I have been reflecting on is...

The Joy of Printing

Printing is expensive, time-consuming, and fraught with technical challenges - so why do I, and many others, enjoy it so much? Printing...

Emotional Connections to the Landscape

Why do certain locations generate an emotional response in us? Long before I ever became a photographer I can recall that visits to...

Why Landscape Photography?

I am sure people have many different reasons for taking photographs of the landscape. Some will be for commercial purposes, others may...

Time for Looking

As landscape photographers we are constantly looking for our next image, but how much do we actually see? Are we looking for something...

Inspiration - Can we find it?

Do we have to wait for inspiration to find us or can we seek it out and create it for ourself? I found myself reflecting on this point...

Embracing Failure

The more photographs I take the more my attitude to failure changes. In my early days as a landscape photographer I would go out on a...

Sleepwalking through Life

I have just read an article on the landscape photography site 'On Landscape' which completely resonated with me and made me reflect on my...

Developing the Creative Mind

Landscape photography is not a competition; it is a form of art, that like all others, is open to interpretation and subjectivity. It is...

February 2019 – Gear Changes!

After a number of months of soul searching and intensive research I finally decided to make the switch from Canon to Sony, and from a...