The Bookshelf #21 - Seeing Landscapes - Charlie Waite
Seeing Landscapes - The Creative Process Behind Great Landscape Photographs
Charlie Waite
Published by Collins and Brown
Available on Amazon from £3.64
Here we go again with another bargain on Amazon, and I say bargain not just because it was cheap, but because it was cheap and it was worth the money (I’d have gladly paid more, but who doesn’t love a bargain?).
Seeing Landscapes by Charlie Waite was published in 1999. I think this is important. Why? It’s pre-YouTube! I don’t feel like as many good books like this are made anymore because YouTube exists and they end up disappearing into the depths of YouTube, when in fact some of the good ones would actually make decent books.
If this book were a YouTube video/series, it would be called something like “Breaking down my best images of the last 12 months”. Hopefully the thumbnail would be better than the title!
Seeing Landscapes feels a little bit like one of those videos, but in a format where you can actually spend time with the images and can try to understand them a little better. There isn’t any music distracting you or links to other videos popping up, and no one is going to try and get you to subscribe to Y Food or Hello Fresh or NordVPN (although you should have a decent VPN!).
The breakdowns of the images aren’t huge. There isn’t one that’s over 100 words. There is some location information and some camera and lens information and, of course, there’s some EXIF data as well. All really useful if you’re asking yourself “How can I get a shot like that?”.
Seeing Landscapes contains lots of photos by Charlie Waite that you’re going to recognise, in locations that are going to be familiar to most landscape photographers, either because you have photographed them yourself or you have seen images of them (probably in YouTube videos!).
What I really like about studying photos in this way is that it allows me not only to slow down, but to go at my own pace, rather than at one which has been dictated to me by the person who has made the video. It allows me to notice things rather than have them pointed out to me. It keeps me offline rather than heaping more screen time into my day.
If you want to look at great photography taken by one of the very best there has ever been, then definitely grab a copy of this. It’s a fab little book that deserves to be in your collection.
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