NORTHERN LANDSCAPE ISSUE # 03 * JUNE 2013
HAVING COFFEE WITH EMIN CAVALIC NORTHERN WINDS INTERVIEWS WPDWA FEATURED WORK THE BIG CHALLENGE
LONG EXPOSURES TUTORIAL THIS IS (HI)STORY! GOES TO RUSSIA ON A ROADTRIP!
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Bow River by Emin Cavalic Kananaskis Alberta Canada
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FROM THE EDITOR It’s getting harder and harder for me to write these things... Well, someone has got to do it anyway and that someone is the Editor and the Editor is me, so here we go: First off, let me welcome all the new members into our group, it is great to have new artists coming in and especially when they come from different world regions rather than UK and Canada. Nothing against who is coming from those two places, but we need to balance a bit, that’s all! Then, I would like to say that I really hope that people keep on enjoying this magazine. I fight for it anyway! I want to do some quality work and raise the quality and interest as much as I can from issue to issue. That is why I started to search for “V.I.P.” people (red this issue’s “Northern Winds”) to contribute with some brand new interesting material.
Editor Chief
João Figueiredo
Test readers João Figueiredo
Graphic Artist João Figueiredo
Web site www.northernlandscape.org
E-mail contact info@northernlandscape.org
Featured artist Emin Cavalic
Do you think that you are one of these “V.I.P.” people? Well, then you can allways get in touch with me via e-mail, facebook, twitter and/or Redbubble! Let me know how can you contribute to this magazine and it’s purpose and we will definately find a way to fit you in! And you can do exactly the same if you want to report a bug, make sugestions, ask questions or whatever! Feel free to come into the Northern Landscape world and don~t forget to give us your feedback!
Your host João Figueiredo
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02 About the cover 03 From the editor & technical data 06 Northern winds - Interview with the founder of WPDWA
12 April features 86 The BIG Challenge ~ May 94 Featured artist - Emin Cavalic 95 Having coffee with Emin Cavalic + his Featured works
98 NLM photo tutorial #3 - Long exposures 104 This is (hi)story! 114 Northern Landscape: Some facts 117 Back cover artist 118 Back cover 4 • Northern Landscape Magazine
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hen I decided to take the phone and call to Jørn Berg Lund, the founder of the WPDWA – World Photographers Donation for World Aid, I never thought he would answer in person. I was already prepared for having to deal with some secretary or manager and need to tackle them with my argumentation in order to get an
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apointment. After all who are we? Not a lot of people outside of RB have heard of us and this is only the third issue. Why sould we be able to speak with the founder of such important project? Well, words ran away from my mouth when I asked “Is this Jørn Berg Lund, the founder of WPDWA?” and I heard a “Yes”. It sounded unreal, but it was actually happening.
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Photographers can also help the others with their artwork. Find out how in our interview with the founder of the WPDWA - World Photographers Donation for World Aid
Well, now it is done and I got my interview with him. Sit tight in your chairs and get to know the person behind this project and above all, get to know the WPDWA! What is it? What is it for? Can I join? Why? These and many other questions...
was forced to do this over e-mail. I would like to just leave a word of appreciation to Jørn for saying yes to an interview in such a short notice and without even puting any barreirs...
I didn’t travel to Danmark (yes, our budget here at the NL magazine is not that generous) so I
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We know your name, and we know you’re from Denmark. Now we want to know your background. Do you think you can make a short summary of your life so our readers have a better idea of who you are?
all photographers in the world with the aim of helping people in need and despair. The idea comes from the heart and even people with very little can help anyone who has even less.
My name is Jørn Berg Lund 55 years old, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since my childhood where I got my first camera always loved technique, and especially stories told through pictures.
WPDWA also have a desire to take distance from egoism that characterizes much of the world today, indifference to those who are either excluded from society or are innocent victims in a war or weather phenomena which means that their house and home disappearing because of flood or storm damage.
Being filled with awe when I see a beautiful landscape and humble when I see a great portrait where the light and technique goes up to a higher level.
The daily news show in pictures how bad things are around the world. Let us together through WPDWA support and help these many victims.
I am married to my lovely wife Lene and have 2 adult children - Maria and Magnus, 3 lovely grandchildren who I love over anything else even my cameras. Children’s unspoiled love WPDWA is a major place for photographers for animals and humans makes me wish I who wants to make difference for those were a kid again and in need and are looking remember many won- “I started WPDWA World beyond themselves. derful memories from Photographers Donation my childhood. What took you to start For World Aid in February with this huge project? Throughout my life 2012, when I was unem- And how hard was it? I have always worked ployed and my wife had with people and have I started WPDWA been diagnosed with through my work met World Photographers many people who have terminal bone cancer.” Donation For World Aid seen beyond their own in February 2012, when I needs and have extra attention to people in was unemployed and my wife had been war and hardship and natural disasters. I get diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. filled with indignation when I see the atrocities that war causes and profoundly affected Planned WPDWA through 3 sleepless nights if I see a child starved and impoverished and got the idea to bring together photograbecause of the vagaries of nature. phers with the sole purpose of raising funds for charity and relief work through the sale I have worked as selling, purchasing and of donated pictures for auction or direct sale facility management and the latest after a between customer areas including business. period where I was unemployed I run now disabled drive where I have a close contact Used WPDWA as a “holy place”, when my with the most vulnerable in the Danish soci- wife rested or was in the hospital. Many ety. details were planned including the desire for a world exhibition which was to be the peak WPDWA (World Photographers Donation for the first years of activity, this was later for World Aid). What is it? postponed due to lack of financial support from the business community. WPDWA World Photographers Donation for World Aid is started from an idea to gather It has been many working hours and many
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written e-mails about 25.000 total to contact photographers around the world. Have tried to get through to the major manufacturers of cameras including Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc. but have failed to receive support from these, one of the more vague excuses have been that “there has been no room in the budget to subsidize”
er ask your family and friends for just a small donation. Contact me jblund@wpdwa.org to have more informations on how to become a sponsor for the project.
It surprised me when I see what other events they support, but it may well be that they get second thoughts when WPDWA has grown larger and shows that there is great interest in the project. By working for photographers to donate images to WPDWA I have used all the social media including Facebook, LinkedIn and www.500px. com to contact and receive donations.
The website www.wpdwa.org will be informed about which images have been sold, and at the same time how much money WPDWA donates to MSF - Doctors Without Borders.
In what exactly is the money of the donated photographs being spend? Are there any specific projects that we can follow?
How big is WPDWA? What plans do you have for it?
WPDWA announced World Exhibit in My work continues to receive more picture Copenhagen, Denmark June 3 – June 17 donations and at the same time to create is postponed due to lack of financial supfertile ground for companies, institutions and port – the project needs funding to have the ordinary people will support with just a small already produced images for the Exhibit put contribution to WPDWA into frames, please help – “many small streams WPDWA announced the project – so that my make a big river!” World Exhibit in dear wife don’t have to the images (many Denmark move At first, this whole Copenhagen, big rolls) each time she thing can sound a bit June 3 – June 17 is post- enters our living room. crazy and as you know, poned due to lack of at a certain point of our What happens to a photo financial support lifes we already been after it is donated? through many things. So, what do you have to tell to people that Donated images will be set for sale in aucdon’t believe in this project? tion site, or directly for sale for individuals and businesses, my hope is that we can have I have been met with suspicion and doubts a gathering in Copenhagen Next year and about the project, as some cannot under- have a great exhibit with many of the images stand that you can easily do some from the you photographers have donated. voluntary way and without having to serve on the project, to them I can only say “I feel If I am a photographer, how can I help? sorry for you, you lose a lot when you do not give with your heart “. I believe in the proj- If your are a photographer you can supect and have from my own income paid the port by donate some of your images for the server host, marketing material, and all other Project. WPDWA accepts all kind of phocost for the running the Project, I simply ask tos – except for “PORN” and images in that for small donations – and if for instance. 1 range!! - WPDWA accepts nude images of Million people visited the site of WPDWA high quality – see for instance Viktor Tatrans and each gave 1 dollar for the project, then images in the donated image folder in the it would make a big difference for those site! in need. Therefore please tell your friends about the WPDWA project, ask your employ- Images should be sent in full resolution 300
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DPI Jpg/tiff – along with a self portrait, 226px x226 px, and a short written CV in English for the presentation in the WPDWA site, please use for instance www.wetransfer.com its free and easy to use when you send your image for this e-mail: jblund@wpdwa.org
had taken a photo – and due to lack of band width from Brazil it took 4 days to receive her donation from Amazonas, Brazil. Another story is about Mary C. Legg who does not have an easy life, sick and living in a property in Prague, she crawls on her knees Have you ever kicked out a photographer taking great macro photos. So even if you from this project or rejected any donated have nothing to live of – you see – Mary gives photo? If yes, why? from the heart, knowing that even the smallest donation can make a difference, there is I reserve the right to refuse images, and always people who suffers more than yourto reject photographers who show no self. loyalty to the project or the image quality or content don’t meet my ideals. All copyrights remain with the photographers - but during the period where WPDWA has provided material - it is not even allowed to sell the donated images. Hence, we must carefully consider Your donation of images WPDWA project running for years to come and will be updated through newsletters and on the website of upcoming events and new photographers. How many photographers have donated so far? Any one famous? 400 have already signed up – 250 have donated and around 250 have indicated that they will donate in near future, my goal is that at least 1000 photographers will donate for the WPDWA project. Hopefully the image bank will hold around 10.000 images to sell from. Anything else you would like to say to our readers? When you sign in your family will grow and you will have many new friends – gathered around the project of give with the heart for those who suffers. Many great stories from photographers have come to my knowledge working the project – for instance: The Brazilian photographer – Karina Zimmer –Amazonas, Brazil – she donated a great portrait of a young Indian female who never
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Jørn Berg Lund founder of the
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got extra happy this month with the entry of some new artists into our group and their quality submissions. I believe that all of them (or at least the most part of them) have already works in exhibition over here. Anyway, I believe that some new blood is always good, it helps to keep the energy at a good level! I recieved a lot of positive feedback about the new organization of the features, so this month I will keep it preety much the same way.
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Ladys and gentleman, the gathering of a whole month of the best submissions to the Northern Landscape Group is ready for you! Please go ahead and delight yourself!
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Bonnie Scotland~ ~Carla Maloco
pure lan Harris: Huishinish Beach~ ~Kasia-D 14 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Spring is here.~ ~Paul Richards
ndscape The Old Man Catches The Sun~ ~hebrideslight
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Along the shore~ ~PhotosByHealy
Canada. Canadian Rockies. Jasper National Park. Athabasca River.~ ~vadim19
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Iceland’s Weeping Wall 2~ ~Graeme Hyde
Canada. Canadian Rockies. The magic of Moraine Lake.~ ~vadim19
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hรถfn, iceland ~ gary roberts
Last Light in The Forest~ ~hebrideslight
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Woodland Track~ ~Paul Richards
Winter on fire~ ~JoĂŁo Figueiredo
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Misty morning~ ~julie08
Grasmere~ 20 • Northern Landscape Magazine ~VoluntaryRanger
Lewis: TrĂ igh Dal Mor~ ~Kasia-D Sunset Beach~ ~Andreas Stridsberg
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Blue and White~ ~Paul Richards
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Sailor’s Warning~ ~Kathleen M. Daley
Nature 25~ ~BKSPicture
Destination: Iceland~ ~Evelina Kremsdorf
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Where The Mountains Meet The Sky~ ~Evelina Kremsdorf
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Colours of Morning~ ~Kathleen M. Daley
Autumn River~ ~Andreas Stridsberg
Flowers For Lake Louise - Alberta~ ~Yannik Hay Northern Landscape Magazine • 25
Serenity~ ~Jim Wilson The River Brathay~ ~VoluntaryRanger
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Spring Flooding in the Marsh~ ~Kathleen M. Daley Land of the Trolls~ ~Steve
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Winter Came~ ~Mark Williams
iceland~ ~gary roberts 28 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Out of the Dark~ ~Paul Richards
Canada. Jasper National Park. Athabasca Falls.~ ~vadim19
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iceland~ ~gary roberts North Uist: Coastal Walk~ ~Kasia-D
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Bluebell Woods~ ~Stephen Knowles
Canada. Banff National Park. Johnston Canyon.~ ~vadim19
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LAKELAND..~ ~johnrace
The Rock~ ~hebrideslight 32 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Culnacraig ~ Ranald
Bluebell Forest, East Sussex~ ~Ludwig Wagner Northern Landscape Magazine • 33
Swan Lake~ ~LadyFi
Pond in Petworth Park~ ~shireengol
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Fall Reflections On George Lake~ ~Debbie Oppermann
So cold, it’s blue!~ ~Nancy Richard Northern Landscape Magazine • 35
Autumn in Wimbledon~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Cranberry Bog Trail Killarney Provincial Park~ 36 • Northern Landscape Magazine ~Debbie Oppermann
MORAINE LAKE, CANADA~ ~Raoul Madden Star Gazin~ ~Roddy Atkinson
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Snowfield Sunset~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Early38Morning Serenity George Lake~ • Northern Landscape Magazine ~Debbie Oppermann
Yamnuska at Dawn~ ~Yukondick
Oxfordshire view.~ ~Paul Richards
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Clearing Storm~ ~sundawg7 Peaceful Pines~ ~sundawg7
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Sleeping Beauty~ ~Kasia-D
Canada. Banff National Park. View from Sulphur Mountain.~ ~vadim19 Northern Landscape Magazine
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Glacier~ ~Steve Firth of Forth~ ~Kasia-D
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Western Brook Pond~ ~PhotosByHealy
Woodland Clearing~ ~VoluntaryRanger Northern Landscape Magazine • 43
Stand Tall~ ~Debbie Oppermann
Reflection~ ~John Thurgood
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Alone At Dusk~ ~sundawg7
Quinag Massif~ ~Kat Simmons
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I Stand...~ ~GerryMac
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Beachy Head Lighthouse, East Sussex~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Snaefellsnes~ ~Pippa Carvell
LOBSTER POT ON LINDISFARNE BEACH..~ ~johnrace
ouched Belle Tout Lighthouse~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Path from Mam Tor~ ~John Dunbar
Islay: The Wreck~ ~Kasia-D 50 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise~ ~Charles Kosina
Road To The Cuillins.~ ~hebrideslight Northern Landscape Magazine • 51
Early Morning Glow~ ~Ludwig Wagner Road to clouds~ ~DmiSmiPhoto
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Wooden boats on the mountain lake~ ~DmiSmiPhoto
Red Cuillin Reflection~ ~hebrideslight Northern Landscape Magazine • 53
Mourne Mountains Forest~ ~Ludwig Wagner
The Boathouse~ 54 • Northern Landscape Magazine ~Jeanie
Winter Morning Walk~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Devoke Water..The Boathouse~ Northern Landscape Magazine • 55 ~VoluntaryRanger
Dedication in the Early Morning Light~ ~Kathleen M. Daley
Canada. Lake Louise. Solitude.~ ~vadim19
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Nature’s Richness~ ~Tamara Al Bahri
Island of Ruegen: Autumn Sunset ~ ~Kasia-D
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Follow Your Bliss~ ~Evelina Kremsdorf
The Morning Walk~ ~Kathleen M. Daley
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The still water from Kassasjön ~ João Figueiredo
At the End of the Path~ ~Tamara Al Bahri
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Moray Firth~ ~Steve
Stallbacka Bridge ll~ ~Mark Williams 60 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Lewis: Reflective Morning~ ~Kasia-D
Here Comes Summer~ ~Jules Northern Landscape Magazine • 61
iceland ~ gary roberts
Seven Sisters Cliffs, East Sussex~ ~Ludwig Wagner 62 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Canada. Banff National Park. Sulphur Mountain. Loneliness of Two.~ ~vadim19
St Peter’s on the Wall ~ Nigel Bangert
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Mount Errigal From The Lodge~ ~Fara
Hadrian’s Wall at Housesteads~ ~Nigel Bangert 64 • Northern Landscape Magazine
At the Foot of the Mist-Wreathed Peaks, Geiranger, Norway~ ~Gerda Grice
Sea Gulls~ ~Tamara Al Bahri
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Canada. Alberta. Canadian Rockies. Environs of Banff town.~ ~vadim19 Seven Sisters~ ~John Thurgood
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Ontario’s Covered Bridge~ ~sundawg7
Heavens Above~ ~John Dunbar
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Snowfield~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Garell Glen,Kilsyth,Scotland~ ~Jim Wilson
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Forth Road Bridge~ ~Kasia-D
Winter Sunset, Northern Ireland~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Golden joy~ ~LadyFi
SHIPWRECK IN THE SEAWEED.~ ~johnrace
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Frozen Poplar Trees I, Northern Ireland~ ~Ludwig Wagner
Irn Bridge (made in Scotland from girders)~ ~Stephen Knowles
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The Mighty Quinag~ ~Kat Simmons
Gone Exploring~ ~Debbie Oppermann 72 • Northern Landscape Magazine
North Uist: The Bothy~ ~Kasia-D
Lake Eidsvatten - Another view~ ~John Thurgood
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THE ISLAND.~ ~johnrace
Graceful Nature~ 74 • Northern Landscape Magazine ~Tamara Al Bahri
A Spring Palette~ ~Kathleen M. Daley
THE DISTANT HILLS.~ ~johnrace
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Thames Sunrise: London.~ ~DonDavisUK
man m North Uist: Beach House~ ~Kasia-D 76 • Northern Landscape Magazine
Awaken The Dream~ ~Evelina Kremsdorf
made Summer on Brighton Beach~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Sunlight on Seaweed at Eilean Donan~ ~hebrideslight Houses at the fjord~ ~Arie Koene
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Butler’s Wharf~ ~hebrideslight
Peaceful place~ ~julie08
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Gone Away~ ~hebrideslight The Titanic Museum, Belfast~ ~Ludwig Wagner
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Northern Ireland Farm Sunset~ ~Ludwig Wagner The Highest Bridge on the Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway Seen from Approach to It ~ Gerda Grice
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Kungliga Dramatiska Teater~ ~JoĂŁo Figueiredo
Callanish Storm~ 82 • Northern Landscape Magazine ~hebrideslight
West Montrose Kissing Bridge~ ~jules572
Inveraray, Scotland~ ~Stephen Knowles
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Bergen - Looking Down~ ~John Thurgood
Lancashire: Witch Way to Pendle Hill ?~ ~Rob Parsons
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THE BIG CHAL 86 • Northern Landscape Magazine
21 ENTRIES 51VOTES 1 WINNER 5 DAYS FOR VOTING
LLENGE ~ MAY Northern Landscape Magazine • 87
BOW RIVER
EMIN CAVALIC
REFLECTING ON A LOCH
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PETER DORÉ
8 VOTES
6 VOTES
The BIG top ten
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THE GREAT STONES OF CALLANISH
OUT OF THE DARK
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KASIA-D
PAUL RICHARDS
6 VOTES
5 VOTES
SEVEN SISTERS CLIFFS, EAST SUSSEX
FLOWERS FOR LAKE LOUISE - ALBERTA
LUDWIG WAGNER
YANNIK HAY
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AT ONE WITH NATURE : LAC BEAUVERT, JASPER, CANADA ANNDIXON
ALASKA - COLUMBIA GLACIER
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NANCY RICHARD
4 VOTES
BLACK TUSK, BC
CHARLES KOSINA
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DUSK SHORELINE NEAR MOVILLE, DONEGAL (RECTANGULAR) GEORGE ROW
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Featured artist
min Cavalic seems to be a man of very few words. He accepted to answer our interview by using the most obvious method in these cases: right to the subject! Enjoy a short but concise interview with the winner of our BIG Challenge ~ May along with all Emin’s featured works at our amazing Northern Landscape Group!
UPPER KANANASKIS LAKE ~ EMIN CAVALIC
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INTERVIEW # When did you join Redbubble? About 6 months ago if I recall correctly. # What can you tell us about yourself? My name is Emin Cavalic. I enjoy going out into
the wilderness whether it be for a good hike or for a fishing trip. I always bring my camera along to document my adventures. As you can probably tell by my photography I have a keen interest in capturing nature. I was pleased to have heard I won this contest!
# How does photography fit in your life? And where do you want to get with it? For me photography is a hobby, I do not expect to make a living from it. I take the pictures for myself. I want to build a collection of photographs from all different corners of earth and natures many different aspects.
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# What photographic gear do you have? I use a Canon 5D Mark III. # How does it feel to win our BIG CHALLENGE and have such a feature on our monthly magazine? It is very exciting as this if a first for me. I am pleased to have my photo featured in your magazine!
# Tell us about the winning shot! I went on a helicopter tour and we were dropped in
a remote area. As we walked near the landing site we noticed this beautiful scene and took this shot.
# Describe us how would your perfect photo be! I don’t think you can take a perfect photo, you will always want it to be better.
BOW RIVER ~ EMIN CAVALIC THE WINNER OF OUR BIG CHALLENGE ~ MAY
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LONG EXPOSURES. HOW DO I MAKE THEM?? Long exposure is one of the most simple things you can do with a camera. Ironically it is something that so many people still think of something “unachievable” and that only the masters of photography can do. Today I will demystify this and explain you how simple it is to make a long exposure. Anyone can do it actually...
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ait a minute... Before we start, what is a long exposure? If the name is not obvious enough, here comes the explanation right from Wikipedia:
◘“Long-exposure photography or time-exposure photography involves using a longduration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements. The paths of moving light sources become clearly visible.” Does this makes sense to you? Oh, you don’t know what the shutter speed is? No problem! If you don’t know it I explain it again directly from the Wikipedia: “In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the effective length of time a camera’s shutter is open. The total exposure is proportional to this exposure time, or duration of light reaching the film or image sensor.” How about now? I will not go deeper than this! So, how do we do a long exposure?
FIRST THING TO DO! The first thing to do is to choose a place and what do you want to shoot. Everything else will depend on that! In this case, I decided to make a day light long exposure of a small stream.
MATERIAL YOU WILL BE NEEDING: Remember, I will not advidse you on which brand you should buy. I will refer to facts and from there on it will be up to you. If and when I refer any brands, it will be because I use them and I have my own reasons, but that doesn~t mean that you can have other brands and still achieve the same or even better results...
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A camera. Almost any camera will do the job, as long as you can control the shutter speed. If you have a god smartphone you
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can even use the phone. So if you have a very basic compact camera but have a very good smartphone, check your smartphone’s camera options.
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A tripod of course! If you read my tutorials you will notice by now that I allwasy use a tripod, right? Wrong. This is just a coincidence, and this is only the third tutorial... But, like I said before, it really doesn’t matter which tripod you have, as long as it is steady and do the job. If you don’t have a tripod, use your imagination! I have already used a pile of books to simulate a tripod! Whatever that can make your camera stable while shooting will do. Once I did a long exposure with the camera on the handrail! I had nothing else... You can also do long exposures without any tripod, but the result will be blurry. So if you want to have a blurry effect on purpose (in order to achieve a more artistical effect) that’s fine, but as usual I am making a tutorial based on the examplr given on the cover image of this tutorial. If you want to have sharpen long exposures, you need to use a tripod or something equivalent.
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If you are doing a long shutter speed exposure that means automatically more light into the camera’s sensor. So, if you have plans of doing a long exposure in day light like I did, you will need something to make diminish that amount of light. Some people religiously say that you’ll need a dark ND filter. Don’t listen to them! Have you ever seen MacGyver? No? See some episodes and you~ll see what I mean. Don~t get angry with me yet in case you are an expert in photography! Yes you can use a dark ND filter, but you canalso use a dark CPL filter or a Big Stopper, or basically anything else that is dark/very dark and will diminish the amount of light coming into your sensor. Of course, if you do this at night, you won’t be needing anything, the camera alone is just fine. As a final note, some cameras already come equiped with a filter in thei body. Even though, it is never a bad idea to buy another one.
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A remote control, wireles or not. If you don’t have one that is ok, I don’t have one and I can still manage. I will explain later on how to do if you don’t have a remote control so don’t panic!
GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY:
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Decide where, what and when do you want to shoot. In this very situation I decided that I would be shooting in the middle of the woods in day light. The motiv would be a stream that has a very small waterfall.
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Go for it! By now I supose that you are already in your spot and setted the camera on the tripod or whatever system you got to have the camera stable, aimed and focused. You can also aim and focus after you configure your camera but I would not advise you to do it due to things change after you zoom in/out. So, settle yourself, aim and zoom.
on a different day than the day I took the long exposure that I use as an example in the cover of this tutorial. In my camera I don’t really have 100% of control over the F value (aperture size), because it is related to the shutter speed (orange arrow). In this case it is showing F25, but for the example that is shown on the cover of the tutorial I used F22. What value should you use? Whatever suits you really! If you’re not sure, there is only one way to know: TRY! If you don’t know how this works, if you feel insecure, play a bit with the buttons and see what happens. Keep on having fun until you achieve the desired result. One last note about the F value: The lower it is, the bigger the size of the aperture is, the
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So, Here on the right is a picture of how I configured my camera options for this specific case. Take a look. The arrows show the only options you need to take a close look. Let’s start with the red arrow. The red arrow is maybe the less important for all this because the ISO will not define if you can or not do the long exposure. What the ISO does is defining your image quality. The lower you set it, the better quality it will be. The higher ISO you set, the more grainy your shot will be. The green arrow tells us the size of the aperture. Don’t know what this means? Well, the name is very obvious: There is a whole in the camera that opens and closes when you press the button to take the photo. That whole will help to define how much light will come into the sensor. This photo was taken
more light will come in. Finally, the orange arrow. Like I said before, this arrow is the shutter speed controler, our main character here! In this example picture I have selected the value “BULB”. This means that there is no predefined time, the sutter will be opened for as long as we keep the finger on the button. It’s the perfect option if you want for instance to shoot at night and you are waiting for a certain thing to happen. Just press the button for as long time as you need and when that certain “thing” has happened, release the button. Otherwise, define
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manually how long you want the shutter to be open. But remember that thi srequires that you know exactly what is your “time window”.
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Don’t have a remote control? Relax... Many people will tell you that without it you’ll not be able to get perfect sharpen photos because you’ll shake the camera. Once again, DON’T LISTEN to them!! Think for yourself! First off, you can train to have a steady and smooth hand in order to be able to click on the camera button so you don’t shake the camera. You really can achieve this! But, this won’t work if you shoot in a soft ground like the ground of a forest or on the sand for instance. So... what to do? Have you ever heard about this thing called “timer”? Yeah... set your timer to what ever time best suits you, focus once more and shoot!
THINGS TO HAVE IN CONSIDERATION: REMEBEMR: The values I gave here are just examples. Follow your own instinct and allways try on your own. Everything depends on the specific situation you are in to. ALSO: There might be slight differences from my camera maker (Canon) to yours. Such differences can be the place of the values in the screen, or others, but the names and the symbols are harmonized among camera makers. So if you don’t have a Canon don’t dispaire, you can still use this tutorial to achieve a long exposure! Enjoy!!
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Follow Irina Chuckowree and Elena Chernysheva on a roadtrip from Moscow to one of the most beloved places in the whole Russia! We warn you that not all the links provided are in English. Some of them are in Russian but the alternative was not to present any link at all. Feel free to use an on-line translation service or just enjoy the images provided in those links. This is the first part of two of an adventure that you just don’t want to miss!
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Halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg, the area known as the Valdai Hills contains a real gem of nature – the peculiarly-shaped Lake Seliger. In fact, it is not just one lake, to be precise, but a large system of lakes linked together by channels and rivers, which were formed during the glacial period 20 000 years ago. Many large European rivers originate in the Valdai Hills: the Volga, the Daugava (Western Dvina), and the Dniepr to
name a few. The Seliger is famed for its outstanding natural beauty, clean water, surrounding ancient pine forests full of berries and mushrooms and for its unspoilt environment. The area around the lake is a protected nature reserve and considered as one of the most beautiful places in Russia. That’s where my Moscow friend Lena is taking me on a road trip. Lena is a writer, photographer, adventurer, romantic and a perfect partner for the road. Lake Seliger is where she spent most of her childhood summers in a semiwild state between swimming in the lake and foraging in the forest (while camping with her parents). This road trip is Lena’s treat to me. It is going to be a trip though the Russian landscape and history. It has been
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dreamt of, talked about, meticulously planned, and eventually it is happening now. On the first day, we are going to drive to the lake, visiting places of interest on the way, spend the night in the car on Seliger, take a walk through a forest to the smaller Troyarskoe Lake next morning and return back to Moscow in the afternoon. Sounds easy. Actually, Lena is going to make a 900 km round trip in just two days. Well, Russia is a big country. Sightseeing of even a small part of it requires travelling huge distances. We choose mid-week for the trip in the hope of avoiding the weekend crowd of holidaymakers and set off early in the morning to beat the rush hour traffic on the Moscow Ring Road. Despite our good intentions, our initial progress is slow. Once we take the NovoRizhskoe Highway, and then the Volokolamsk Highway, the going gets easier. Our first stop is the village Mikulino not far from the boundary between the Moscow and Tver regions. Here stands the beautiful Cathedral of the Archangel Michael , built in the XVI century on the site of the ancient (XIV century) Mikulino Hillfort. It’s a very peaceful timeless place, with little to remind us of the modern age. The pure whiteness of the cathedral looks surreal against the blue sky and surrounding greenery. We can’t linger here, we still have a long way to go. Without any road signs, we know immediately that we have crossed the boundary between the Moscow and Tver regions. The road surface suddenly becomes riddled with potholes. It’s not a surprise: most of the Russia’s wealth is concentrated in and around Moscow. The rest of the country has no monetary means to keep up with its rich capital. Soon the road takes us through the Pushkino village. On our approach, the view is dominated by the sight of a ruined church. It is strategically positioned on the road bend and in its glory days it must have been a welcoming sight to travellers. It’s a sorry image now. The church of the Assumption was built in 1793, with the bell tower added in 1908. After the October Revolution of 1917, the church shared the sad fate of most Russian churches. Worship ceased in that same year. Since then, the building housed a warehouse, workshops, stables, a fuel filling station, and a garage. The church was at the center of fierce fighting in 1941 during WWII and incurred further destruction. The years of neglect have left a ghost of a building that once was the pride of the village: the roof has fallen down, the southern wall of the refectory is missing, and the remaining walls are covered by a forest of tree saplings and bushes.
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What a striking difference to the heavenly beauty of Mikulino cathedral seen earlier on our way! We carefully take a walk around and discover that the room in the first tier of the bell tower has been restored by local parishioners, where regular services are held. Too little too late? Despite the goodwill of people, it is not possible for a small village community to carry out large-scale restoration. Anyone willing to help is advised to visit this site: http://temples. ru/donate.php?CardID=5555.
We drive on. The road takes us past Tver through a thick pine forest. Lena knowingly takes a left turn into a small side road, after a few miles crosses the river Tvertsa and eventually stops in a car park on the river bank among tall pine trees. We have arrived at Mednoe Memorial Complex , the place where in the 1930s and 1940s thousands of Soviet and Polish citizens were killed in mass executions by the Soviet Secret Police, known then as the NKVD. Not many people have heard of mass executions at Mednoe, but probably everyone knows of the Polish mass graves in Katyn near Smolensk, which were discovered by the Nazi Army in 1943 during WWII. The Nazis never occupied Mednoe, and so the terrible crime was kept secret by the Soviet Government until May 1990, when many documents were made public during the Yeltsin times. The exhumation of mass graves in the 1990s uncovered the scale of these mass executions. There were found the remains of 6314 Polish citizens from the territories of Poland acquired by Russia after the MolotovRibbentrop Pact in 1939. The released documents highlighted the awful fate of Polish officers, landowners, church and law officials – people who were viewed as a threat to national security by the Soviet authorities. The Mednoe site is the biggest known burial place of the Poles in the former Soviet Union (4421 people are buried in Katyn, 3820 – near Kharkov). The area was also used by the NKVD as a regular burial ground for the shot “anti-Soviet 108 • Northern Landscape Magazine
elements” during the 19371940 period. It is difficult to identify the exact number of Soviet citizens buried here, but it is thought to be around twenty thousand. After the war, the area was developed as a wellguarded leisure zone for NKVD staff , which helped to keep curious people away and keep the secret in. It is shocking to imagine the monstrosity of people having fun on the graves of victims that where killed by their hands... The place has a very profound effect on me. I’ve seen many memorials commemorating the dead, but Mednoe is nothing like any of them. What strikes me first is the scale of it. The massive rusty wall near the altar, covered by thousands of Polish names... The split in the middle of the wall and the tall cross standing slightly beyond it, as if trying to break away... The heavy bell suspended beneath the wall that is said to sound as if coming from under the earth... The slender iron crosses all over the forest punctuating the mass graves, 25 of them,
as tall as the mature pine trees surrounding them... The “circle of crying” made of thousands of plates with names and details of every person murdered and buried here... Different people, different dates of birth, same date of death – April 1940... It is a glorious summer morning. The warm air is full of light and the sweet aroma of pine resin and needles, the ground is carpeted with flowers, wild strawberries and mushrooms. Birds are singing... And here is Death amongst the living forest. It’s hard to think that this astonishingly beautiful place was home to so much evil for decades...
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On the road again. Through the ancient postcard-pretty city of Torzhok 3-4 km upstream on the river Tvertsa we come to the Vasilievo estate. With little left of the mansion house itself, the landscaped grounds are now housing an open-air museum of wooden Russian architecture. But the main attraction is a three-span stone bridge. It was built at the end of the XVIII century by the famous architect N. Lvov, who happened to be a relative of the estate owner, using the technique archivolt in which the stones in the construction of the bridge are held only by their own weight, without the use of cement or any other binding components. Some people called the bridge “a symphony in stone”, others – the Devil’s Bridge. Anyone who watched the film “Night Guard” might recognise the bridge. It is here the battle between the forces of Dark and Light was filmed. Dusk is falling, but we still have to visit one more place before we reach our stop on Lake Seliger. It’s a holy place of deep spiritual meaning for any Russian – the source of the great river Volga. It originates as a small stream from a bog spring near the village of Volgoverhovye , about 20 km west from Lake Seliger. The site is well sign-posted, but I wish someone had invested more money on the road leading there: the surface of the compacted sand-and-gravel track resembles an old-fashioned washing board (the road must have been levelled by a tractor). A Russian proverb comes to mind: “In Russia there are no roads, only directions”. The road goes through a dense pine forest, with an occasional swamp glistening between the trees here and there. Eventually, thoroughly shaken, we see the red-brick Cathedral of Transfiguration and the wooden church of St. Nicholas standing on the hill. In front of it, in the middle of a swamp, there is a wooden chapel, connected to the shore by a wooden decking. The chapel has been standing over the source since ancient times, decaying and being re-built again. For hundreds of years pilgrims have been coming here, to the source, in the
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belief that the Volga water has healing powers. Annually on the 29th May, a ritual of consecration of the river source is held here, so that the river may carry its holy waters over the entire Russian land. This area was occupied by the Germans during WWII. On liberation, the Volga source was found to have been blocked by rubble. The Nazis tried to suffocate the Great Russian River in its infancy... We don’t take away the holy water but we make use of another long-standing tradition: standing astride the foot-wide Volga, we make our most sincere wishes to the holy river to grant them... We leave this magic place only because it suddenly goes dark and starts raining. I pause to read the message on a huge basalt rock by the entrance: “Traveller! Turn your gaze to the source of the Volga! Here arises the purity and grandeur of the Russian land. Here lie the origins of the people’s soul. Bless them. Look back when leaving”. I do. As we drive back on the washing board road, the rain stops as suddenly as it has started. A rainbow arches its back over the primitive road and the primeval forest around, and for a short moment I feel I am a part of a Russian fairytale...
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Northern La Some facts How to queue in Russia (a practical guide) Part 2
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ou need to have your passport to buy a train ticket. Actually, you will need your passport to do pretty much anything in Russia. Even for sightseeing and visiting museums. There are always two prices quoted for entry to many sightseeing attractions: one – for a Russian person, and the other – for foreigners, which is multiple times higher than the “Russian” price. The ticket salesperson wouldn’t want to play guessing games in order to charge you the right fee: “Your passport, please!” Well, “please” is usually not included. As a rule, you should always carry your passport with you in Russia. That’s because at any given time someone somewhere might want to check your identity: at the bank while exchanging your foreign currency (the date of your birth is of high importance there!), at the train station while buying a ticket, on the street while sightseeing… Yes, if for some reason you stick out of the crowd, a militiaman, sorry, a policeman could stop you and
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ask you for your documents. I have never had the unfortunate experience of being stopped by a militiaman, sorry, a policeman, but I have seen plenty of random people being stopped and questioned on the streets or such venues like train stations. What happens to these people afterwards, I can’t say, but I never see them again. I’m not saying that I don’t see them again because they were stopped by the militiaman, but one can’t rule out that possibility. I apologise for calling the policemen by their old name “militiamen”. Their “christening” has happened quite recently, and apart from the name change nothing has changed, in particular their habit of harassing innocent people on the street. Why they do it is a separate story. Meanwhile remember to carry your passport with you at all times. But we shall go back to the queue at the train station. You’ve joined the queue, carried out all the required procedures, received and passed on the information, and, after a
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considerable length of time, you are about to face the ticket-selling woman (it’s always a woman, as I said earlier) with your passport. There are just two more people in front of you… Now, just one… Any moment now! And then… You hear a very polite voice: “Excuse me, please! Allow me, please, to jump the queue in front of you and buy a ticket, please!” It could be a woman decorated with hanging crying babies. Or a man, whose fiancé is already sitting and waiting for him on the train, that leaves in 5 minutes to a particular destination containing her anxious parents. Or an elderly person, whose legs are about to give up while talking to you and begging you to allow him or her to jump the queue in front of you. You are not heartless. Even if you don’t believe them for a second, you still let them in… Eventually, after what seems like eternity (certainly long enough to write a narrative
about practical advice on how to stand in the queue in Russia) it is your turn to buy a ticket. You present your passport, specify the destination and the date/time of travel, and within minutes you are the proud owner of a double-paged elongated pink paper strip. A sense of anticlimax hits you. Suddenly, you want to be anywhere else but here, in the ticket hall of the train station… So, choose your destination! Now you are armed with the knowledge and ready to master the ticket queue in Russia. Better still, you could pretend not to understand the whole art of queue-standing and be daring enough to jump that queue. You have a valid reason: your train really is leaving in the next 5 minutes!
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eter Doré had a brilliant shot that got him to the second place at our BIG Challenge of may. As a prize he gets the special highlight at our NLM: The last page and the back cover. Let’s see what Peter himself tells us in his profile page:
“I’ve travelled and lot in my 60 years, and worked in many lands and cultures. I’ve been in the service, and known some awesome people in awesome lands. Hopefully I can give a bit back through my pictures. It’s really a great world with a lot of great things to see and do. So I want to take what I have seen and done, and show it… Contact is peter_dore@yahoo.com or bubble mail Please note that images are not in the public domain and copyright applies. Which is fair, and everyone says it so it must be OK! I have been honoured with a picture on the RedBubble home page on 5 May 2011. This is awesome and I am very happy for the honour. “ - Paul Richards I have also been recently honoured to participate in the Solo Exhibition Juried Invitational Exhibition. Please click on this and have a look at some of the wonderful works that have been presented!!” Peter Doré Northern Landscape Magazine • 117
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REFLECTING ON A LOCH BY PETER DORÉ A reflection in a Scottish Loch near Glencoe. The mirror-like surface providing a perfect reflection and with stillness and colour as good as this, who could resist a shot? Pentax K20D
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