Category: Landscape Photographs

Landscape Photographs from around the World

REGISTRATIONS OPEN FOR 2013 ICELAND WORKSHOP – LIMITED SPACE LEFT!

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Registrations are open for the 2013 Iceland Workshop. If you interested in photographing in the amazingly geologically diverse country of Iceland now is the time to register your interest. This workshop is for a maximum of 6 participants who are serious about their photography and are willing to put in long hours in the field and work for their images. Working with a small number of photographers means we can get to more inaccessible locations when the light is at its absolute best. We can move quickly from location to location as the light changes; or maximise our time in the one location when the light is magical.

If you want to be able to take photographs like this under the spectacular midnight sun then drop me an email registering your interest for this fantastic workshop. This workshop is strictly limited to a maximum of six participants, plus leader and guide and places are reserved on a first come, first served basis. Location highlights include the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon, Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland’s spectacular Dettifoss, Selfoss and Godafoss waterfalls, the geothermal region of Myvatn and many more amazing locations. For further details and a preliminary itinerary please see the workshop tab at www.jholko.com or send me an email to register your interest.

CAPTURE MAGAZINE – THE ANNUAL EDITION 2011

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Every year Capture Magazine (Australia’s top-selling Pro Photography Magazine) releases an Annual Edition with the some of the best professional photography for the year featured throughout its pages. Over 2100 photographs were submitted for potential inclusion in the annual this year and less than 130 made the final print edition. This year I am thrilled to have two of my photographs from Iceland included in the Special Annual on pages 30 and page 50. I am doubly thrilled that it is one of my personal favourite photographs from Iceland, ‘Well of Life’ that heads the landscape category.

Other categories in the 2011 Annual include Art, Advertising, Portrait, Documentary/Photojournalism, Editorial, Wedding, Fashion, Sport, Travel and a category for Emerging photographers. Also included are some very interesting surveys straight from the mouths of professional photographers on their favourite websites, blogs, software, studios, applications, equipment and more. Its a wonderful summary of some fabulous photography from throughout the year and a fascinating insight into the preferred tools, website hang outs and more of professional shooters. Capture magazine can be purchased at all good newsagents or subscribed to online at Yaffa Publishing.

Capture 2011 Annual Scan

THE MANNINGHAM LEADER NEWSPAPER – ‘FRAMING BEAUTY IN THE WILD’

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My local newspaper – ‘The Manningham Leader’ interviewed me last week for the Silvershotz 2011 Annual Award and the edition came out today on Page eight – 3/4 page spread. Click HERE to download a higher resolution copy of the article.

Manningham Leader

Photo Plus Expo in New York, USA has now come and gone for another year. If you were fortunate enough to be able to attend I hope you were able to make it over to the Moab Stand where some of my photography was on display on my absolute favourite paper – Moab Somerset Museum Rag. My new exhibition ‘Colors of Iceland’, opening on the 2nd of December this year at the Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania  is printed exclusively on this beautiful paper. I also recently talked about my printing and printing papers in an interview over at CPS Canon Australia; which may be of interest.

I am a few days late updating the photograph of the month as I have been both under the weather for the last few days with a rather nasty tummy bug and otherwise snowed under. With departure looming for my trip to Antarctica in only a few weeks I have been busy running around securing additional memory cards, bags, clothes, accessories etc. as well as attending to the usual office duties. I will endeavour to get up to date later this evening.

Edit – I have updated the Photo of the Month for November 2011.

MAHOMETS TOMB – MOUNT BUFFALO

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It has been a while since I have posted a landscape photograph from my own home country. Partly because I have just been flat out with other things and also because I had not really had a chance to sit and sort through a series of photographs I shot toward the end of Winter up at Mount Buffalo in the Victorian High Country. Mount Buffalo is my favourite location in the Victorian High Country for landscape photography – particularly in Winter. The large granite boulders and outcroppings make wonderful subjects that are very beautiful when covered in snow. Snow is a photographers best friend in the Australian bush – it really aids in hiding much of the messy scrub and underbrush that is not particularly photogenic.

This photograph was taken at an area known as Mahomet’s Tomb just on sunset. I had hiked up to the location anticipating that as the sun dropped low to the horizon it would catch the outcropping of boulders known as Mahomet’s Tomb. For the shot to work I needed a clear horizon to the west so as not to obscure the setting sun and light (which I was fortunate to get). Shortly after I made the photograph I was wandering around down in the valley area pictured and went through the ice up to my waist in a hidden creek – it took me some to extricate myself. It was a most uncomfortable experience; but it did make the shoot memorable; even if the hike back to the car was cold and wet.

CANON AUSTRALIA PROFESSIONAL SERVICES [CPS] INTERVIEW – ‘GEAR IN ACTION’

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I was recently interviewed for Canon Australia’s CPS Pro website and the content of the interview is now online at CPS Australia. Although the discussion was wide ranging and varied there was an emphasis on large format printing and the fact that I do all of my own printing in-house. Printing is a critical part of producing photographic fine art and next to actually working in the field with my camera equipment is an aspect of my photography that I very much enjoy. Hope you enjoy the interview.

A small disclaimer: Although I both shoot and print exclusively with Canon cameras and printers I am not sponsored by Canon. I pay for all of my own equipment with my own hard earned money. I choose to use Canon cameras and printers because I have found them to offer outstanding results and reliability in my photography – not because I am incentivised by the manufacturer. I am a Canon CPS Gold Member and rely on CPS to assist me with sensor cleaning and loan equipment from time to time.