The British Landscape has a surfeit of variety for any landscape photographer to feed on. From the Caribbean like beach of Luskentyre on the Isle of Harris to the thrilling coastlines of North and South Cornwall or the Welsh Pembrokshire coast to match any US Oregon coast.Equally for the urban landscape photographer, the British Isles has some of the finest cathedrals in the world along with contemporary architecture that can rival the best Dubai has to offer.

1. British Landscape For Photographers
The British Landscape has a surfeit of variety for any landscape photographer to feed on. From the Caribbean like beach
of Luskentyre on the Isle of Harris to the thrilling coastlines of North and South Cornwall or the Welsh Pembrokshire
coast to match any US Oregon coast. Equally for the urban landscape photographer, the British Isles has some of the
finest cathedrals in the world along with contemporary architecture that can rival the best Dubai has to offer. The much
maligned weather systems that the UK enjoys provide the lighting and the skies that are pivotal to the craft of fine
landscape photography and proudly offers to the world some of the finest landscapes on the planet and some of the most
experienced and talented landscape photographers to capture them.
The English Lake District
Little wonder that the English Lake district enjoys the popularity it does.
People mention that it ‘always rains in the Lakes’ this is not true of course but we should be thankful that it does at least
rain some of the time. No rain equals empty lakes.
Derwent Water is a favourite for many photographers and not just for the rich brown clinker built pleasure boats that
line the shore near Keswick.
Surprise view on the way up to Watendlath offers a view across the lake toward the mighty Skidaw beyond, that in mixed
lighting of highlight and shadow, will keep any photographer content for hours or most probably days.
Yorkshire Dales
The next word after mentioning the Yorkshire Dales to any landscape photographer would almost always be Swaledale.
The geometric designs of the dry stone walls zigzagging across the landscape with immaculately restored barns perfectly
placed where the walls converge will always keep any photographer busy for many an hour.
Based in Richmond or any of the wonderfully hospitable B&B’s near by will allow an easy western journey along the
B6720 through Swaledale for Gunnerside Thwaite and Keld. Be prepared to be gone for a long time.
Northumberland Coast
When Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens altered Lindisfarne Castle in 1901, he could not have foreseen how many
photographers would have crossed the causeway to enjoy photography of this superbly positioned castle.
To the south, the often empty Northumberland coast provides photographers with the handsome Bamburgh castle and
for the landscape photographer who enjoys some wildlife photography, springtime on the Farne Islands matches the
Galapagos for being able to get close to some of Britain’s finest seabirds. A few miles further south and the photographer’s
prize awaits them in the form of Dunstanburghm Castle. Every image of this wonderfully evocative ruin is different. Each
photographer can rightly claim the photograph that they made as their own. Be there for dawn.
Glen Etive Mor, Scotland
The Landscape Photographers Mecca.
The ‘Buachaille’ as lovers of one of the great Munro peaks will call this stunning mountain beckons photographers from
all over the world. It may almost be as though you cannot claim to be a landscape photographer if you have not touched
the hem of the great Buachaille and yet if a mountain could speak, she might ask what it is about her that seduces
photographers to clamber about heathland and struggle through streams in all weathers in pursuit of the quintessential
image. It is quite simply tantamount to landscape photography ecstasy to be in the company of this thrilling landscape
when the light accords with ones objective and a photograph is finally made.
Win Green Hill, Wiltshire
The landscape slightly east of Shaftesbury, made famous for a loaf of bread rather than being one of the highest and
ancient towns in the UK, provides constant visual joy. This deep scoop of landscape just due north of Ashmore will be all
the more reminiscent of a natural amphitheater with the distant land subdued by some compliant clouds whose shadows
may descend the background into shadow. Here is Cranbourne Chase at its best with chalky upland with a history of

2. earthworks and Neolithic habitation. Any landscape photographer travelling along the A303 on their way to the far south
west could be forgiven if they arrive late. Just west of Stonehenge, the landscape across Salisbury plain and Cranbourne
Chase will require enormous restraint not to stop and drink it in and better still, photograph it.
The Western Isles
There is so much more to the western isles than Skye and for photographers with a few more days to spare and with
neither a fear of boats nor a passion for trees, the western isles offers extended potential. Many landscape photographers
will at one time or other gravitate far north to the Inner and outer Hebrides and for the photographer who has time to
head further west, then Harris and Lewis, the inseparable pair, awaits them with brilliant white beaches and the Bronze
age stones of Callanish and much else. To non-photographers the landscape of Harris and Lewis might be seen as barren
and empty yet to landscape photographers they are rich with potential. Islay, the southern most island of the Inner
Hebrides is a favourite of mine and has much to offer with superb coastal scenery and often paddling cows.
Cornish Coast
There has been never been any open claim between North Cornish and South Cornish folk as to who has the best
coastline it is just that each will quietly claim to have the best. Landscape photographers are passionate about both.
In May, the thrift and campion delights the photographer and St Michaels Mount just east of Penzance must almost rank
with Glencoe and Glen Etive in Scotland as being one of the most photographed locations in the southern UK.
Around 2 miles north of the Lizard is Kynance Cove which on a sunny day with blue sky above, offers the most turquoise
water believable.
The north Cornish coast will always thrill lovers of blowholes and John Betjeman’s Greenway beach with a short walk
from St Enedoc will offer the best of landscapes across the Camel Estuary especially at low tide. Happy memories for me
of the ferry across to Padstow.
Lincolnshire
The so called flat counties of the UK are not often seen as having a huge draw for landscape photographers and yet this is
cruelly unfair as there is much here. Norfolk and Suffolk offers to the photographer some delightful villages and for lovers
of inland waterways, there is much here. It is hard to travel too far without seeing a drain or narrow river.
The beaches especially in north Norfolk are wonderful in winter as are so many summer coastal destinations. For the
landscape photographer, they truly come to life in winter. Many photographers have a fondness for Lincolnshire and her
old disused airfields and of course her cathedral seen so clearly from the ramparts. Waiting for light is a common pastime
for photographers and first and last light seem to grace and flatter landscape and architecture revealing dimension and
depth.
Cuckmere Sussex
Just east of Seaford along the A259 there is a viewpoint of the meandering River Cuckmere a short distance before it
reaches the. Landscape photographers are rarely simply recording what a place looks like; they use their camera as the
most creative tool to express their response to their world around them. As a winter sun descends hopefully just behind a
thin veil of cloud, the river takes on a look of a ribbon of mercury and in monochrome, the water looks more metallic.
A little further east the Seven sisters with the familiar row of cottages is a great favourite with photographers; important
to be there at low tide to reveal the serrated nature of the cliffs.
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