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A few thoughts of getting out of a creative rut in your art or photography.  

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Lizzie Shepherd is a  photographer from North Yorkshire who specialises in landscape, nature, and travel photography. 

We chat about printing and Lizzie and Alex's book-making courses. Encouraging others to print and teaching the process of bookmaking. 

Considering thoughts around honeypot locations and how not to dismiss them but to find the beauty in these places and pick the times and place to visit. 

We also chat about Lizzie and Alex Hare's workshops which have been running for 10 years now and the locations that they have travelled to over the years.

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Justine is based in the NW Highlands and her work is inspired by the elemental landscapes and seascapes of the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Justine works in a mindful, intuitive, and immersive way and loves remote landscapes. We chat about her works and her time on the Isle of Eigg as well as her recent move to the west coast of Scotland to renovate a cottage with no road access.  We also chat about  forest bathing and mindful photography 

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A few thoughts on finding our natural style. 

The biggest question in photography is how to find a style that is truly your own.  We can learn techniques and technicals - anyone can - but to have your own unique stamp on your creative style, to truly find your voice is the ultimate goal. 

The chances are extremely high that you already know your own style,  your voice . Or you did once  - when you were young. The problem is that we have all spent our lives unlearning our intuition and natural instincts. 

Opinions, demands of life, societies norms, what everyone else thinks, feeling not good enough all get in the way as we grow up. 

When you think of a 3 year old creating happily with boldness and enjoyment. They dont  worry about what anything else may think of their creation they simply enjoy that wonderfully creative process of throwing paint around.

As we grow this knocked out of us over and over in a gradual process. At home and school we are taught that mistakes are bad - but the reality is great artists are those that are willing to take risks, to stand out and be different. 

When you create, you create from the heart and therefore you lay yourself open to hurt. And those times where a teacher or a parent or peers laughed at your art or told you it was no good, cause deep scars. So we learn instead to blend in, to be liked   Until we no longer know what is real, what is inside of us.


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In this episode, I chat with Kim Grant about how she came to be a full-time professional photographer after many years of photographing Scotland's landscape. 

Kim Grant is a landscape photographer who is passionate about sharing Scotland first and foremost.  She is known for her successful Youtube channel and we talk about how it has  allowed her to find her place in the world and find her own voice. Also about being one of the first UK female landscape photographers on youtube and how this is changing now. 

We touch on being an introvert and how Kim is able to show up constantly on camera and enjoy doing so.

Since recording this episode Kim has rebranded herself as 'Visualising Scotland' and the links have been updated to reflect this change

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Anna Deacon  is a photographer, author, and wild swimmer who has a passion for telling peoples' stories 

 Recorded during February 2021 while Scotland was under lockdown restrictions, we talk about how Anna went from commercial photography to burnout and used that time to pivot and start doing a heart-led project: Writing "Taking the plunge" in collaboration with Vicky Allen.  

"Taking the Plunge:  The healing power of wild swimming for mind, body and soul"

And how things developed from here and this led her to write several books, the latest being a wild swimming guide. We chat about all things body image, well-being, and how Anna shoots her portraits of wild swimmers. 

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A few thoughts around water and how it links through my personal life, my well-being and into my creative work. Wild swimming as a way of healing and finding inspiration in my photography.

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Morag and Ted are photographers based partly in Scotland and partly in Italy. They work  together to form Leeming and Paterson. 

There's a slow, thoughtful and immersive feeling to their work and the idea of shooting close to home is extremely interesting. Their passion for environmentalism shines through their life and work and their book  Zero Footprint; with every photo being taken from precisely the same position outside their home in the Galloway Hills. 

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Katie Ione Craney: https://katieionecraney.com/

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