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Links : B&W Photographers

These are the best B&W landscape links I have found on the web, I keep the list short because I believe it should be exclusive and also because I want it to be current, with all links valid.

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Mario Abbatepaolo. Mario works mostly on the coast with a few nice images of rivers and trees as well. The foggy seascapes and mystical forest vistas are what struck me here. Both the site and the photography are simple and beautiful.

Alio~Phote Photographic Gallery Steve Karafyllakis has some lovely intimate B&W landscapes but the thing that strikes me about his images is the "big skies" he has managed to capture.

Ansel Adams Gallery. If you don't know who this is then you've stumbled upon the wrong web site.

Phil Bard Photography Phil uses a 4x5 camera to capture classic style straight B&W landscapes. There is also some short but good technical articles and info about his workshops.

Big Cypress Gallery Clyde and Niki Butcher Clyde shoots with a 10x8 and has great images of the Florida everglades. Niki has documented some of the photo trips. Interesting anecdotes that give some idea of the difficulties involved working with large format in the field.

John Beardsworth Photography. Landscape images from Scotland, England, Italy and California as well as portraits and other studies. Check out "Ardmore with boat", what a great shot. Simple and highly graphic.

Carey Bird. An expat Kiwi now living in Australia. Very nice medium format images of New Zealand and Australia.

Howard Bond Howard is a very well known photographer and one of the main practitioners of unsharp masking as a technique for increasing the apparent sharpness of a print. He also has a book of exquisite images of the Greek islands called White Motif.

Circle of Confusion James Bullard's photography site. Nice images and plenty of good technical information and articles by a bloke who obviously does photography for the love of it.

Toby Deveson Toby is not afraid to show the human in the landscape, or at least the human's knees and boots in the bottom of the frame. Many of his shots a very moody images of the fogbound English countryside with ruined castles and gnarled trees. Just great. You can also buy Toby's prints and I commend you to do so, after you've purchased one of mine of course :-)

Michael Easton A simple and fast site specialising in B&W landscapes in British Columbia. Most images are close and fairly abstract. You can purchase cards and fine prints. Michael has some really beautiful images, check them out.

Charles P Farmer. Charles is a well known photographer. His site has a range of fine images and some very amusing stories about being a photographer. Charles' sense of humour is displayed in his statement about the site's image quality...

"All photographic images were reduced/adjusted to minimize download time and do not reflect the high quality of the original artwork. To view original artwork, place an order and send money NOW!"

Chip Forelli. I was presented with so may interesting-looking thumbnails I didn't know where to click next. So which is my favourite image? Well there's Cascading Falls, Steel Pier, Clear to the Horizon, Sunset Tasman Sea, Fence and Field...heck, I can't choose. One particularly quirky image, Rain Slickers, makes really good use of movement with some waving curtains in an old shed.

Libor Jupa Photography. Landscapes from Ontario to Death Valley but also some interesting street scenes and details from New Orleans.

Bob Hallock. Bob has some fine images, I particularly like Trailside in Fog and Leaf Detail has some striking patterns. Bob is into Physics, and I do mean INTO Physics, with a string of fellowships, awards and degrees it's a wonder that he has time to take any photos.

Roy Harrington Great images of beaches at sunset, closeups of seaweed, rustic buildings etc. Really worth visiting.

Chip Hooper. Chip has been featured in many magazines including my favourite, Lenswork. This should be enough said but I'll say something anyway. There are many images in strong desert sunlight etc but it's the tonal range of the peaceful seascapes that I like.

Rolfe Horn. I'd just finished viewing the outstanding work of Chip Forelli and thought there's no chance of finding another great site in one night when I came across f45. Take for example Dusk, Izumo, Japan to be sure it's a stunning subject but Rolfe's mastery of the process is very evident. Then there's Dusk, Tatami-Ishi, O-Island, Japan, the tessellated rock shelf and moving cloud is outstanding. Very simple, strong, minimalistic images.

David Houlder. David's got some great photos here, many from areas that I know well, which is not surprising as I've been on many photographic expeditions with him. One image in particular I like, it was taken at the bottom of Holland Gorge, during what would become known as "The Holland Gorge Death March" by those who participated. I was stood right next to David at the time he took this photo but didn't I see a shot. Just goes to show.

Joseph Hyde Beautiful B&W landscapes in the classic style. Joseph is obviously not afraid to get up early as many images have a wonderful misty look. I particularly like River Tree but also the lead photo Barn Interior.

Bob Hudak. Bobs images of the Florida swamps have a magical glassy look to the water which contrasts nicely with the roughness of the surrounding foliage. Very appealing. Bob also has some more abstract images featuring the radial patterns of ferns leaves, close-ups of bark etc.

James Kay. James has been a photographer for 20 years and is an advisor to "Outdoor Photographer", one of the world's leading photography magazines. All this shows in his work, there's some spectacular images on his site, both colour and mono.

Michael Kenna. Beautiful minimalistic work. Many images only have one item, say a tree, surrounded by almost featureless snow or water. Most images are taken in Japan, not the first country that springs to mind for uncluttered landscapes. There's a wealth of great images here so plan to stay awhile.

Kerik Kouklis A Platinum/paladium printer and from what I can see a very good one. Most images are panoramic and there's even some verticals, very unusual for a panoramic format.

George Lauterstein Beautiful images in the true monochrome large format genre — only they are all shot with a Leica. This style of image is usually produced by slow methodical work with a view camera. George's images just go to show that 35mm cameras and an eye for the quite, detailed landscape, are not mutually exclusive. Check them out.

George has now switched to digital, I haven't had a chance to re-review the site yet.

D'Arcy Leck. Simple and strong, the images that is, not D'Arcy. A site with great shots and a no-bullshit artist's statement, it's good to see. Naturally I zoomed in on the B&W landscapes but there are some great colour images of the outdoors as well.

Silvio Maraini. Silvio comes from Switzerland, he has many photos from his home country as you would expect. But there are also a lot of images from Iceland on this site. Good moody photos of misty forests, driftwood on beaches, waterfalls etc.

Lynn Radeka. I've known about Lynn's work for ages but somehow never went to his web site. What beautiful images. These are easily some of the best B&W photos I've seen so do yourself a favour and have a look.

Craig Richards Canadian Craig Richards has good credentials, including the publication of a book about the Canadian Rockies, Head of Photography at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, and appearing as tutor with Bruce Barnbaum's workshops.

Ron Rosenstock. Ron's site is very simple, with just a dozen or so images, but what images. Ron has found beautiful quiet light in such diverse countries as Nepal, New Zealand and Italy. I can't really pick a favourite but the delicate sidelight on spindly trees in Visankhukat, Nepal, 1994 has got to be close.

Bill Schwab. Stunning images from UK and USA. Check out "John Pugh's Grave" and tell me if that's not old John Pugh himself standing behind his headstone.

Mike Sibthorp. If there's one thing about Mike's photographs that caught my eye it's trees and fog (actually that's two things I guess). Mike uses the soft English light to it's best advantage, for example the lovely regression in 5101, Black Park, Slough. Switch to the International section though and the light turns to bright, bold sunshine. A simple and well laid out site.

Gordon Stevenson. At last, an Australian photographer for my links page. Gordon lives in Sydney, a lot of his work is minimalist with just a couple of items in the shot, a style I've always liked.

Tranquility Images The images of Craig Wells. As one of the few photographers that provide a short narrative about each image Craig went up in my estimation straight away. This estimation was confirmed as I viewed the images, Craig's shot of Tanaya Lake (#217) is the best I've seen.

Jerry Uelsmann Clock faces floating in tranquil lakes, a woman who turns into a waterfall, a waterfall that turns into a tree, a forest with a floor of clouds. These images are just beautiful. For something different check out Jerry's site.

John Wasak  John has as many colour as B&W but what the heck. Images are organised in Earth, Sky and Water categories. Some of the sky shots remind me of Stieglitz's "Equivalents".

Tom Way. Tom uses a 5x4 field camera to photograph waterfalls, old buildings etc. Sounds just like me really, only his images are taken in places like Vermont and Quebec.

Watersign Gallery featuring the images of Robert J Holmok. As the name implies there are a lot of shots of water here.

Western Echoes. This site has some beautiful images of the American West, my favourites are the misty morning shots of Yellowstone and a very simple image of some lily pads and reeds floating in the water. In an interesting twist, and at the other end of the imaging spectrum, there are also some fascinating computer generated fractal images.

Robert A Zeichner Robert has been photographing for 35 years, he has written for View Camera magazine, lectured on large format photography and held several one-man exhibitions. I homed in on the desert scapes but there are some poignant studies of failed human attempts to tame the American West and nice images of waterfalls and other detail shots as well. Robert's civil war images are taken of a re-enactment but look just like originals made by Brady's bunch and are very sobering.

 





 


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