David Davidson
I’ve been photographing now for over 50 years and hope to get good at it some day. I began off solely photographing landscapes however in newer years have develop into enthusiastic about wildlife and journey pictures as effectively. I promote editorial photographs through Alamy. I do like a grand vista but additionally search for small scenes. I’ve not travelled a lot within the final couple of years, for apparent causes, a lot of my work is presently across the Chilterns the place I dwell and it’s related to being on the market within the wild strolling. I desire discovered photographs to deliberate ones – “F8 and be there” as one other of my heroes stated.
After an pleasing day exploring many photographs by my favorite panorama photographers, I returned to this iconic 1960 picture by Bradford Washburn. This single picture fuelled my teenage enthusiasm for each pictures and mountaineering. My ardour for each began within the mid Nineteen Sixties once I was in my mid-teens, and it has lasted to at the present time. A winter course at Glenmore Lodge, taught by a cadre of Britain’s best mountaineers, fired my ardour for hill strolling, snowboarding and later mountaineering. My curiosity in pictures developed alongside as a result of I wished to seize one thing of the magnificent snow and rock scenes that I used to be starting to come across within the mountains.
So as to fulfill my urges to be out within the hills throughout schooldays, I started to work my method by way of the mountaineering and pictures cabinets of my native library. And someday, I stumbled throughout a Bradford Washburn guide of mountain images. I used to be instantly captivated by the sheer high quality of the massive format, monochrome aerial photographs and their dramatic contents. “After the Storm” was notably breathtaking and have become my agency favorite – I later found that It was additionally a favorite of Bradford’s. And since that second once I found Bradford, I’ve discovered that now we have had frequent sources of inspiration in mountaineers/photographers.
