Staithes is one of the rather hackneyed subjects for a certain type of British landscape photographer, exemplified by people such as Joe Cornish, Michael Busselle and Charlie Waite. Their work is not generally to my taste, although it is very popular here. For me it relies too much on over-dramatising the subject, using things like split ND filters, warming filters and so on.
Landscape photographers I enjoy are people like Fay Godwin, Tony Ray-Jones, Mark Power and James Ravilious. Browsing the web for information about English landscape photography I came across the following exhibition catalogue, which includes a good essay on the subject, encapsulating a lot of what I think. I'd never heard of the photographer, David Robbins, before. I hope you also enjoy it. On the front page, click the photo to see the exhibition, and the text Essay by John Taylor to read the essay: http://www.an-eye-for-england.co.uk/index.html -- Regards, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
