David Taylor Landscape Photography

David Taylor is a landscape and travel photographer based in Hexham, Northumberland. David has worked all over the British Isles, from Cornwall to the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. He is particularly passionate about photographing the landscape of his home county of Northumberland. Away from the shores of Britain, David's travel photography has taken him from sun-kissed beaches in the Indian Ocean to the bright chill of Sweden in winter.

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Focus on...September

It’s a startling fact that Eskimos don’t have more than fifty words for snow. Equally startling is that the British don’t have more than fifty words for rain. We have a few - rain obviously - but also drizzle and curiously, mizzle. And there are words for how heavy rainfall is - shower, deluge, pouring, spitting to name but four. But fifty words there aren’t (though I have a sneaking feeling I may be corrected on this). This seems to me to be a peculiar failure of imagination given how much of the stuff seems to fall here. Especially, it seems, when I want to be out and about creating landscape images of this green and pleasant land. The fact that it’s green and pleasant precisely because of all the rain is one irony I’m trying not to think about. Fortunately I’m an adaptable soul and so if I can’t have golden light skimming across the landscape then I’ll try something else. And that’s the key to improving as a photographer. If Plan A doesn’t work, then there’s always Plan B and only really start to worry when you’ve worked your way through the alphabet and have had to invent new letters to cope.