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This is the one of a what I hope to be a series of posts on the creative process. As I have posted earlier I am trying to raise my game in photography and in addition to refining or learning technique I also want to expand my creative process and be more intentional about this aspect of my work. When I picked up film photography as a hobby almost 10 years ago I did spend some time learning and practicing new skills. In particular I benefited from a study of composition. I am now revisiting this subject and as a consequence of this I am more aware of it. I was watching a Nick Carver video on YouTube today. If you haven’t seen his work look him up. He has a unique perspective and his videos are engaging. As I understand it he makes a living photographing architecture and I think this influences his landscape work. I follow him as he works in film and so his passion as a landscape photographer is aligned with my interests as well. That being said however he often has a very different...

A few weekends back Vicki and I traveled to the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales. It is located as circled on the map below. It is a beautiful place with beaches, spectacular cliffs and the Snowdonia mountains as a backdrop. We only stayed a couple of days but the weather was fantastic and we fell in love with the area and the warm Welsh people we met. I brought along the Fuji G617 and hoped to get some nice landscape photos. I also brought along my recently purchased soft graduated neutral gradient filter. I bought a cheap version of the Cokin filter (100x150mm) and holder. I was concerned about possible vignetting or interference of the filter holder on the edges of the image. The holder can keep multiple filters with extra slots. I removed these extra slots in an effort reduce the chance these would interfere with the edges of the image. All of these photos can be seen here in full resolution . This blog format does not show them off in the best way. I started out with just...