Photo Tags : landscape : Photo

One man and his dog. Well here is photography at its absolute best. I have been entranced (and troubled) by this image, coming back again and again to look into it some more. It is perfect. But is it a landscape?…Yes it is. Is it “nature at its best”, yes it definitely is. Original? Absolutely! But also technically excellent, artistic, well composed and researched. This image is in a class of its own, it is so powerful yet so simple. It tells a story of life and its values, worth more than a thousand words. The way the man is dragging his feet while returning to the monotony of his terraced house (and life) from a natural escape to the park, a resourcing walk under the cotton clouds. This is fantastic work and although this photograph touches the fringes of this landscape theme it can be the only winner. Congratulations for a truly inspiring photograph.

This image was shot last July in Edinburgh at the edge of Holyrood Park. When I arrived at that location where landscape gives way to cityscape, the shot and framing seemed obvious, but I was really lucky to have, just at that same time, this man and his dog, and this cloud following them to the city. Leica MP, Summicron 35mm with circular polarizing filter, Kodak Ektar 100 film.