Photography

Photographer Alison Tuck wins the Sterna People’s Choice Award of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards with her brilliant image of a gannet attempting, in vain, to build a nest as the wind blows the grass straight back into its face. The shot titled Now where is my nest? was captured on an extraordinary windy day on the Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, UK. In the public vote, the photo won convincingly…

I’m a massive fan of the black-and-white landscape photography that helped bring the artistic genre into the mainstream, especially from the likes of Ansel Adams. His black-and-white work truly embodies the phrase “composition is king,” and I think the lack of color makes you hone in on this. But there’s another historic photographer whose name is less well-known that I think more…