It’s been raining, damp and dull all week now. Rather than going out with my camera, I have taken a little time (in the evenings) to view wildlife and landscape photographers sites around the world, for inspiration.

I have been aware of Joe Cornish, a North Yorkshire based landscape photographer, for sometime now having read a couple of his books and visited his website (several times). Saturday afternoon, I made the journey to Northallerton to visit his studio/gallery. Wow! Just the most stunning prints of the British coast and landscape. Well worth the trip and really inspirational. Joe is involved with Light & Land, a group of landscape photographers that teach photography all over the world.

Camille Seaman has photographed icebergs as they drift and slowly disintegrate. Beautiful, poetic, haunting pictures. Nick Cobbing has some stunning photograhs of icebergs – the gull flying past give a scale to the icebergs – amazing.

Steven Cheshire has two sites – one dedicated to British Butterflies and one for UK wildlife in general. Both worth a visit and a great source for identifying butterfly and dragonfly.

I came across Les McLean’s photographs of Yorkshire and Scotland yesterday.

Josef Hoflehner has the most stunning black and white images on his website.

Here is a list of other landscape/wildlife photographers – all produce the most stunning images and a great source of inspiration:

Min Enghauser
Marc Adamus
Marino Cano
Jack Brauer
Lonna Tucker
Christopher Wilson
Jason Bradley
Christopher Dodds

Enjoy! Please post a comment if you seen a landscape or wildlife photography website that has impressed you.

Saturday afternoon and I need to get some fresh air and take a few photos. I drive out to the coast again and arrived as it starts to go dark. I took a sequence of photos of waves breaking and then several shots in complete darkness, using long exposures. A large wave drenched me as I took the shot at the top and I found myself knee deep in waves on the second. I think the exposures were a bit too long…the waves are too flat and too muchmovementin the water. Want to go back and shoot them with the lens wide open, slightly faster ISO, and shorter exposure (but still enough to blur the water). More importantly perhaps I should be there early in the morning to have better light.