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The landscape in monochrome has been popular since the very early days of photography and since then has become an art form with a language and aesthetic quite distinct from other photographic genres. Many landscape photographers prefer to work in monochrome rather than colour because the medium allows us to project more of ourselves into the image. We have much more freedom to change the dynamics of an image to express what we want to say and a greater arsenal of tools with which to do it. One of the greatest monochrome landscape photographers, Ansel Adams, likened the creation of a landscape photograph to the creation of music, with the negative as the score and the print as the performance. It isn't enough to simply print the negative as the camera recorded it. It has to be interpreted by the "performer" (photographer) to express whatever it is we need to say.  I believe that a good expressive photograph is ultimately about us regardless of the subject, which acts as a medium through which we express human thoughts, feelings and ideas. The landscape photograph in monochrome does this perfectly and is as popular today as ever. It has remained largely aloof from technological advances in photography so far, but whatever changes occur in the future I'm sure the language of monochrome landscape photography will remain.

Most of my  landscape photography has been created on the 6X6cm format using Hasselblad equipment, although recently I've been using the digital format (35mm style) for some work. Over many years I've developed a way of working with the square format and although it's usually cropped into a rectangle I find it perfect for landscape photography. I find the rectangular digital format difficult at times and usually end up cropping to make it less of a rectangle.

The photographs in the photo galleries were mostly taken on the Hasselblad with a few digital and even a few on 35mm film using a Leica M3 or Nikon. The copyright on all photographs is owned by myself and the images are for sale as prints or single-use reproduction rights. Contact: Bruce Cowell at BrcCow@aol.com

Photo-Gallery

LD001. A small localised thunderstorm on the flat western plains of New South Wales, Australia.

LD002. A Pandanus tree (Pandanus tectorius) growing on the dunes - Central Queensland coast.

LD003. Snow Gums in early morning cloud, the Australian Alps.

 

LD004. Lake Hawea. central South Island, New Zealand.

LD005. A small alpine lake near Margaret Pass in the Australian Alps

LD006. Grasstrees, (Xanthorrhoea sp.) in the late afternoon light.

LD007. Eucalypts overhanging a cliff - New England Tableland, New South Wales.

LD008. Water erosion on the rockface - Freycenet Peninsula, Tasmania.

LD009. Hattah Lakes, Victoria.

LD010. Mangroves - central Queensland coast.

LD011. A coastal inlet in tropical Queensland.

LD012. Scribbly Gums (Eucalyptus racemosa)

LD013. A Red Cedar tree (Toona australis)

LD014. Rhyolite columns of the Glasshouse Mountains in southern Queensland.

LD015. Dead eucalypts of the Menindee Lakes, New South Wales.

LD016. A large River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)at Cooper Creek in far western Queensland.

LD017. A rock pool at the Grampian Mountains, Victoria.

LD018. Beach patterns, Frazer Island, Queensland.

LD019. Bird footprints in the sand, central Queensland coast.

 

LD020. Tidal sandflats, Theodolite Creek, Woodgate, Queensland.

LD021. A sandstone formation in the Queensland Central Highlands.

LD022. Eucalypt and rock, the Granite Belt, Queensland.

LD023. Tree Ferns in early morning cloud.

LD024. Twisted branch, Menindee Lakes, New South Wales.

LD025. A vine of the sub-tropical rainforest, southern Queensland.

LD026. Vines of the tropical highland rainforest, north queensland.

LD027.

Red Cedar was highly saught-after for its timber in the 19th century and suffered serious decline in the wild. It is now returning to rainforest in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales

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LD001. A small localised thunderstorm on the flat western plains of New South Wales, Australia.