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Giving feedback to other photographers requires effort. Before we start the learning exercises. You need to understand the power of positive feedback.

Wynn Bullock is one of my favorite photographers, and is up there as one of my influences.  I must get one of his books one day.

Do you chase known locations or photographs?

Len's presentation to the On Landscape, A Meeting of the Minds Conference in The Lake District, United Kingdom, November 2016.

Two photographs showing the difference between a misty mountains day and a clear one.

So far 2016 has been a great year of photography for me, here are some of my favourite shots. It is amazing that all of these were taken on workshops. Either ones I have lead, or ones I have attended.  

Learning to draw will improve your photography. Learning to draw in charcoal will help you understand and compose in tones. In this short article Len explains why you would want to learn to draw, and how to get started..

 " My photography is not ‘brain photography’. I put my brain under the pillow when I shoot. I shoot with my heart and with my stomach." Anders Petersen

An excerpt from Chris Jordan's film Midway... 

Photography may be the easiest artistic medium, with the possibility that someone may accidentally create a masterpiece. This therefore makes it the hardest artistic medium. Chuck Close explains this further very eloquently...

Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

-Frank Capra

"...the more preoccupied I become with photography and with producing 'results', the less productive becomes my vision. The more open and receptive I am to find those objects of beauty that are symbols of the mysterious and unknowable. The search is always more important than the goal."

- Peter Dombrovskis

Len describes how to add stars to your photographs with some tips on astrophotography.