Photography Links

Painting With Light Members

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Ian and Sue are proud members of the Painting With Light Society, a group of digital landscape photographers based in East Anglia. Below are the individual members' websites.

Kate Barclay Photography
Kate Barclay is an inspiring landscape photographer who produces delicate and sensitively lit images of the rural and coastal landscape of her home county of Norfolk. Kate has an artist’s eye for recognising the potential in the rhythms and patterns of the natural landscape - as can be seen in the simple but breath-taking beauty of her image entitled Reflections. Kate and John Duckett will be offering workshops during 2008.

Chris Calver Photography
Chris Calver has the good fortune to be living in one of the most beautiful areas in East Anglia. His images of his local seaside town of Southwold reveal great talent and an obvious affection for this special place. His photographs display an enviable versatility that allows him to exercise his talents and skilful techniques within such other genres as abstracts, flowers and portraits. Although Chris is perhaps best known for his stunning seascapes of the Suffolk coast (his images of Southwold Pier are of exceptional beauty), his rural landscapes can be equally awe-inspiring – as his image entitled Rainbow fully testifies.

J Duckett Images
Norfolk-based John Duckett creates remarkable portraits of his home county – and further afield – in a unique and instantly recognisable style. His spell-binding landscapes, bathed in gloriously warm light, ooze mood and drama. Sometimes a particular image stirs the viewer’s spirit in a way few other images can. John’s extraordinary Time and Tide, captured at a stormy Happisburgh, is one such image.

Jon Gibbs Photography
Jon Gibbs has been described by Amateur Photographer as "the hottest name in landscape photography". Anyone familiar with his frequently published images will understand why. Like Dave Peck, another Painting With Light friend and colleague, Jon, who lives in Norfolk, is one of those curious creatures who actually enjoy being on location at sunrise. As a result, his exquisite images of his beloved Norfolk - and of other regions throughout the UK - are bathed in that uniquely clean and delicate light that often heralds the start of a new day. In 2007 Jon was awarded the title of "Landscape Photographer of Year" for his remarkable photograph Storm over Scroby Sands.

The UK Landscape
As its name suggests, the “UK Landscape” website of Norfolk-based professional landscape photographer Chris Herring contains magnificent images of landscapes across the United Kingdom. Chris is fast establishing a reputation as one Norfolk’s best young photographers and a visit to his superbly constructed website provides an excellent introduction to his work. Brograve Mill, a delapidated structure on the Norfolk Broads, is a much-photographed feature; but there is no image of the mill more memorable or atmospheric than Chris’s hauntingly beautiful Ghostly Remains.

Imageast
Imageast is the website of good friend and landscape photographer Dave Peck. Dave, who lives in Essex, combines his technical expertise, acquired during the course of his career as a professional photographer, with his natural eye to create exceptional portraits of the landscapes of East Anglia and beyond. Like Ian and Sue, Dave has a particular affection for the Naze, a unique stretch of coastline close to the Essex town of Walton; and his images of this location capture its curious character perfectly. But if there is one series of images that exemplifies Dave’s technical expertise and instinctive eye for the photogenic, it has to be his panoramic portraits of the Stour Valley and Dedham Vale. These are composites, created by the merging of a number of images (sometimes as many as ten!) in Photoshop to create one mesmerising landscape with stunningly sharp and composed detail throughout. The beautiful images entitled Breaking Through and Spring on the Stour II are only two of Dave's many outstanding panoramic landscapes.

Shepherd Pics
Essex-based Chris Shepherd is one of those photographers with the eye to see the potential in the most unremarkable scenes: an autumn leaf on a London drain; the symmetry of some scaffolding; a splintered stick in snow. These subjects, which others would pass by without giving them a second glance, have been beautifully captured and presented by Chris on his superb website (which incidentally is a recipient of the Outdoor Photography Magazine’s Website of the Month Award). His wider landscape images, of scenes from Essex and further afield, are no less impressive. One particular image, Mountain Light is a little masterpiece. It would be easy to believe that it was by Charlie Waite; and as easy to believe that, if he were to see it, Mr Waite would wish that it was by him!