Iceland & Bolivia Monographs

I was going to release a new eBook this month titled 'Examples - the making of 40 photographs', but things have changed in the last week. I'm shelving this project as an eBook for the time being as I feel it is going to be the basis for a physical, cloth bound book. It's very early days at the moment so don't hold your breath for a physical book anytime soon. But suffice to say that a project is underway.

Instead, I'll be offering a different eBook at the end of April about low-light photography where I cover all the technical requirements for shooting in low light with digital and film. More information about this later on.

In the meantime, I'm pleased to let you know that i've got two monographs now available:

Iceland - a photographer's monograph

Monographs by definition are about single subjects. In this case, I've put together a collection of my Iceland images with some short essays about my time and experiences whilst there in 2004.

I feel Iceland has been one of my most successful photographic endeavours, so it's great to be able to offer this eBook which contains high resolution images to be enjoyed on a 24" and even a 30" screen if you are lucky to own one.

Bolivia - a photographer's monograph

Likewise, I'm pleased to announce a monograph about Bolivia at the same time.

For me, Iceland and Bolivia conveyed the more alien aspects of the Earth's natural landscape. Bolivia went one step further because not only did it look alien, it felt alien too. With high altitude symptoms - headaches and breathlessness, I felt sometimes that I could have been on another world.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these eBooks. I'll let you know when the 'low-light-photography' book is available.

Until that is available, you can buy the monographs here.

Examples - work in progress

Many thanks to all of you who bought my new eBook - Simplifying Composition. It has been a great project for me to work on. I thought I'd let you know about the next title that I will be releasing. Titled 'Examples - the making of 40 photographs', I expect it to be out at the end of April.

This is of course, work permitting, as I have a workshop running on the isle of Eigg at the end of April, and one to one client time booked for this month.

But until it's finished, here are some tasters for the new book. It's got 40 high resolution images in it, so it displays beautifully on the largest of computer monitors.

The book contains images from my entire portfolio: Bolivia, Cambodia, Cuba, Easter Island, Iceland, Portugal, Patagonia, Scotland.... and is a combination of portraiture and landscape work.

Until then, if you don't already know about my latest eBook, it's called Simplifying Composition and you can find out more information about it here.

Composition eBook Released!

I'm pleased to announce the release of my 2nd eBook - 'Simplifying Composition'. Containing 33 pages with images from my portfolio, It's been a great project for me to work on.

Having to think about composition and why some of my images work, has been enlightening for me and I'm sure you'll find it of great benefit to you.

There are illustrations within showing how I dissect some of the images.

You can buy it here.

If you haven't already bought my Taj Mahal book about approaching a subject, then it's possible to buy both books at the same time and get a discount. Check it out on my Store page.

Composition eBook

Work is underway on completing my book about composition. It's been very interesting working on several eBooks all at once, this past three or four months.

It does get to the point that I feel I've worked on them so much, that I can't quite see the wood for the trees. So I'm off to the Lake district today to see a friend and spend some time getting to know a landscape I'm not that familiar with!

Anyway, I thought I'd show a teaser for the book above. :-)

Book Diagrams

I've not been on my blog for a while. It's been a busy week while I was in Glencoe conducting a Photo-workshop. I'm in the process of writing a little book about composition and thought, that it might be fun to show some diagrams from the proof copy.

I think composition is key to making great images.

There are certain subconscious rules that we employ - we're not really fully aware of why we choose a composition - it just feel's 'right'. Being too aware, I feel, may make you a more competent photographer, but it won't make you a great one.

There has to be a sense of engagement in the photos you are making.

Making a good photo is easy. Making a great one requires for you to look for that extra special something in the landscape. And that only happens when you're fully engaged.

Upcoming eBooks

Since I've just released my first eBook, it is perhaps timely to tell you about some publications that I've been working on for the past few months.

Writing a book about my processes is perhaps much easier if I'm able to draw up a 'road map' of further titles that cover different aspects of photography. The Taj Mahal book was a joy to write - using a setting such as the Taj Mahal to explore my motivations and therefore, approach to making images of a location was very satisfying to re-live. But it was clear to me that there are other avenues I need to write about and so I'm really pleased to give you advanced notice of the forthcoming eBooks:

Simplifying Composition

One of the things that I cover a lot on my workshops is composition. It's amazing just how much people actually 'know' about photography, yet don't employ this knowledge. In this book, which will be the next one to come out, I've got some diagrams (drawn by myself!) as illustrations as to why some of my own images work. As usual, there will be a nice collection of images in high-resolution from my trips around the world - Scotland, Iceland, Bolivia for example.

A Photographer's Compendium

Everything you should know, from shooting in the field to post production. A collection of articles such as process-methods I use in the field to Photoshop post processing to monitor calibration. The essentials you should know and get into the habit of employing each time you make new images.

Portraiture

One thing I don't seem to be so well known for, is my portraiture work. Well, this book is really a collection of my best Portraiture work with essays about my approach for each of the images in the book.

Examples

40 Photographs, inspired by Ansel Adams book of the same name.

Currently Available

At the moment, if you're not aware of this - 'The Taj Mahal - a photographer's approach' eBook is now available from my online store!