FRONT COVER BY ROSS HODDINOTT
CONTENTS:
EDITOR RECOMMENDS:
Elena Dudar
EDITOR’S LETTER
By Gray Levett
WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY – MICHELLE CHAPLOW: A Room with a View
By Gillian Greenwood
Gillian Greenwood continues her benchmark series on women photographers of today with a feature on award-winning travel and hotel photographer Michelle Chaplow, who has photographed a number of UNESCO-recognised buildings and hotels in more than sixty countries during her career.
WESTERN CANADA AT THE THIRD TIME OF ASKING: Part 2
By John Archer-Thomson
Ecologist, photographer and writer John Archer-Thomson returns to Nikon Owner with the second part of his feature on Western Canada, which includes stories of black bears, sea otters and ‘old growth’ forest. He shares
his and his wife Sally’s colourful adventures with us in photographic detail.
A CLOSER LOOK AT WATER
By Heather Angel
The revered wildlife photographer and writer Heather Angel brings her considerable expertise to the subject of water and its effect on marsh marigolds in spring.
BURUNDI – THE SACRED DRUMMERS OF GISHORA
By Andrew Main Wilson
Our globe-trotting adventurer Andrew Main Wilson explains that for him it is the lesser-known and least-visited countries that have created the greatest sense of photographic fulfilment. Burundi is one such country.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST D(ARK)ROOM – SHOOTING EXPIRED FILM
By Becky Danese
Technical writer Becky Danese guides us through the highways and byways, the pluses and minuses, of using expiring or expired film for a shoot.
JASON FIGGIS: ECHOES OF A LOST WORLD
By Gillian Greenwood
Gillian Greenwood looks at the extraordinary work of the late social documentary photographer Shirley Baker and talks to award-winning filmmaker Jason Figgis about his remarkable film Shirley Baker: Life Through A Lens.
BECKY’S BOOK NOOK
Becky Danese reviews a new audiobook Landscape Photography for Mirrorless and Digital SLR Users by Daniel Lezano and Ross Hoddinott.
TECHNICAL Q&A
Simon Stafford answers the Technical Helpline
THE TONY HURST GALLERY
Words by Gray Levett
When the Nikon F was released in 1959, it was accompanied by a set of Nikkor lenses whose focal lengths were marked in centimetres. There are other markings too, known today as ‘tick marks’. Gray Levett describes them in detail and Tony Hurst captures a Nikon F fitted with a 5cm f/2 Nikkor-S tick-marked lens & rare lens hood.
THE MUSICAL BOX OF MICHAEL PUTLAND
By Gray Levett
Although Jimi Hendrix’s all-too-brief music career spanned only four short years, he is widely celebrated as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music. Music photographer Michael Putland’s image captures him at his prime.
