Harry Cory Wright

Photographers can be a funny breed. A few years ago I went to a workshop with landscape photographer Harry Cory Wright. It was a sort of ‘audience with’ out on the North Norfolk coast.

I’ll confess I took a camera – though didn’t take a single photo. To me, the day was more about looking and seeing, rather than taking.

But I shouldn’t have been surprised that the majority of those attending were simply itching to get snapping from the minute we arrived, with more of an interest in f-stops and shutter speeds than the creative process behind Harry’s work. The important bit.

Of course, there’s an element of me that does enjoy the business end of photography – but it’s the (relative) simplicity of Harry’s set up that appeals. A big wooden box on a big tripod that takes big negatives which allow you to produce very big prints. But it's a process that means you think about the photos you're taking - with the cost of the film and processing, you simply can't sit there snapping away and hoping that you'll get one good shot.

You’ll find out a bit more about this on Harry’s website. He spent last year touring the UK preparing a book called ‘Journey through the British Isles’ which will be published later in the year. Harry logged the journey in this excellent blog.