Authors
Mick Ryan
Mick Ryan is the founder and the director of fotoVUE. He is based in Calderdale having spent the last seven years in the Peak District. He also spends part of the year in Saratoga Springs, upstate New York. He is the founder of Rockfax guidebooks and introduced well-designed large-format photo-topo...
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Stuart Holmes
Stuart was fortunate to be brought up around Keswick in the Lake District, an ideal playground for anyone who is into outdoor adventures. Having had various point and shoot cameras from the age of 11, the photography got a bit more serious on his first climbing trip to the...
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George Johnson
George Johnson started photography when he was 4-years old. He describes himself as a dedicated hobbyist and amateur landscape photographer, but one who has had much success in the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition with a commended entry - urban section in 2014, and two commended entries in...
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Sarah Howard
Sarah’s interest in photography was initiated by her father, an accomplished amateur photographer, and developed further through her travels overseas. Inspired, and subsequently mentored, by renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite, she was encouraged to develop her photography further. 2009 saw of the publication of her first book; 'A year in the...
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Carsten Krieger
Carsten Krieger is a professional photographer and author based in the West of Ireland. His unique images are highly acclaimed and he is one of Ireland’s most published photographers. His work has appeared in numerous print and online magazines such as Ireland of the Welcomes, Outdoor Photography, Burren Insight,...
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Justin Minns
Justin is a professional photographer specialising in capturing the atmosphere of the East Anglian landscape. "There’s something special about watching the first pastel colours of the day appear over the frozen stillness of a Broads landscape on a winters morning or standing on a wild and windy beach as the sun's...
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James Rushforth
James Rushforth is an experienced and professional climber, mountaineer, skier and high-liner. An acclaimed photographer and three times published author who has worked with prestigious publishing houses, Rockfax, Cicerone Press and FotoVue. James has won 12 international photography competitions, the latest of which at the prestigious Siena International Photo...
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Oliver Wright
Oliver Wright is a co-author with Lizzie Shepherd of the forthcoming fotoVUE photo-location guidebook, Photographing The Yorkshire Dales. Oliver is a professional photographer and photography guide. He is an all-round photographer who is at home photographing robber flies with his macro set up – a Canon 5DS with a...
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Andrew Yu
Andrew, 40, is an IT Business Solution Architect who lives in Manchester with his wife Lin and 7 year-old daughter, Sophia – Andrew was born in Cheshire. Andrew first picked up a camera in 2008 whilst working in London and is a regular at the Peak District locations but...
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Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall is a wildlife garden designer and a professional wildlife photographer. He is a contracted contributor to the RSPB image library and runs wildlife photography workshops and guided trips to the locations in this book. Passionate about wildlife from an early age, he grew up in Keswick in the English Lake District where he started...
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Alex Hare
Alex lives in Kent and has photographed landscapes around the world. However, he has developed a passion for the less well known rural landscapes, seascapes and towns and villages of Kent. Alex is a professional photographer but he offers photography workshops from 3 hour short courses to day long...
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Richard Fox
Although I used to shoot with film using first my dad’s old Pentax Spotmatic and then my own Pentax ME Super, because of studies – science and then veterinary medicine – it wasn’t until 2012 that I made a risky purchase of a full frame DSLR camera and started...
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Don Williams
Maps are an integral element of our photo-location guidebooks and we are fortunate to work with the very talented cartographer Don Williams. Don lives on the Isle of Bute from where he runs his freelance cartographic service Bute Cartographics. He has been twice awarded with the Wallis Award for...
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Geraldine Westrupp
Geraldine is the co-owner and a director of Wild photography Holidays. Living in Iceland, She first visited the country twenty two years ago to guide Nordic Ski-tours. Since that first encounter, Iceland has always fascinated her with its stark abstract landscapes, unpolluted air and wide-open spaces, she is never happier...
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Martin Sammtleben
Martin is the co-owner and a director of Wild Photography Holidays. He trained as a photographer and graphic designer in Aachen and Wuppertal, Germany. In 1994 he came to Iceland for an extended summer holiday and decided to make his home there. He originally built his own business as...
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Sasha P Goldsmith
Sasha's background is in science, business administration, training, and conscious business development. Sasha has spent her life being an amused, curious enquirer, and investing in meaningful, personal relationships. She is an earnest lover of nature, a keen runner on the moors of West Yorkshire, and is currently writing her first...
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Villager Jim
They seek him here, they seek him there, but that elusive Villager Jim, cannot be found....... anywhere. Who is he? With breathtaking photographs appearing hither and yon, there's a new wildlife photographer on the block who sneaks about at dusk and at dawn, capturing images which surprise and delight. Entertaining...
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Lizzie Shepherd
Lizzie is a professional photographer based in North Yorkshire, specialising in landscape, nature and travel photography. Lizzie runs small group photography workshops, offer 1-2-1 tuition and also provides commercial photography services to a number of different clients. She is regular contributor to to a number of different photography and outdoor...
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Drew Buckley
Drew Buckley is an award-winning professional landscape and wildlife photographer based in Pembrokeshire, South-West Wales. His images and features are regularly published in the very best of the nation’s media and magazines including BBC Countryfile, The Times and Outdoor Photography. One of his puffin images was chosen for the front...
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Chris Gilbert
Chris Gilbert lives in Cressbrook, right at the very heart of the Peak District. Chris has been photographing since the 1980’s and bought his first camera a Zenit E SLR with his first paypacket. He has lived in the Peak District since 1994. He is a full time photographer and conducts...
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Dougie Cunningham
Dougie came to photography through climbing and kayaking, eventually realising that he found as much satisfaction in getting a good photograph of someone else scaring the wits out themselves as he did facing his own mortality on the end of a rope or running the next rapid. From there...
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Anita Nicholson
Anita is a Northumberland based photographer with a love for the great outdoors and for capturing images that convey a sense of place and wonder at nature's beauty. She has been chasing clouds and taking images, from sunrises at silly o'clock to star filled skies after dark, from...
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Nicholas Livesey
Nick lives and works in the heart of Snowdonia National Park. He is a partner in the Soul of Snowdonia Photographic Gallery in Capel Curig and runs mountain photography workshops. He was profiled recently in Outdoor Photography magazine. His mountain photography frequently appears in magazines including Trail, TGO and...
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Adam Burton
Adam Burton is one of the UK’s leading landscape photographers and author of six books. A photographer for over 20 years, since 2008 he has been working as a full time professional landscape photographer, regularly supplying imagery and undertaking commissions for a wide range of clients. Based in the South...
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Simon Kitchin
Simon Kitchin is an award-winning landscape photographer based in North Wales. Whilst he has always had a camera close to hand it was his relocation to North Wales in 1997 that saw him begin to take photography seriously. This allowed him to spend much of his time wandering amongst the stunning...
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Mark Bauer
Mark Bauer is the author of two coffee table books, Romantic Dorset and Perfect Wiltshire and co-author (with Ross Hoddinott) of two photography technique books, The Landscape Photography Workshop and The Art of Landscape Photography. Mark has worked full-time as a professional photographer since 2003 and is considered to be...
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Ola Stepien
Ola Stępień is the web designer for the fotoVUE website. Ola, originally from Poland, has been keen photographer since 2004 when she moved to Dorset, UK to work as a geologist/geotechnical engineer. In 2011 she moved to the Peak District – yes she’s a climber - and completed...