Look out for my new travel article in the February issue of Outdoor Photography magazine, out today!

The three page Encounters feature, entitled Off-peak Attraction includes the image of El Teide, above, and starts on page 52.

If you missed my recent Yorkshire Through The Seasons exhibition at Harrogate Library, you have another chance to see some of the images in Knaresborough from this month

The images will be on show at McQueen's Cafe, 51 High Street, Knaresborough

From 25th January 2007 until late March 2007 (date to be confirmed)

This month's image is the rather alarming Storm Over Littondale:

This image was captured way up Littondale late on a winter afternoon, with clouds rushing by and casting ever-changing shadows on the daleside.

This was one of the images in my Yorkshire Through The Seasons exhibition at Harrogate Library last month.  Thanks to everyone that visited, and for the nice comments in the visitors book, some of which are now available to view on the website at:

www.marksunderland.com/Exhibitions/YorkshireThroughTheSeasons.html

My apologies if you were hoping to read a message announcing a January Sale!

Unfortunately last year's alignment of prices between web and art show sales, with the introduction of separate delivery charges, was the last reduction in prices that I am able to offer (ever).  This is, of course, great news if you bought a print in 2006, as prices are only going upwards from now on!  However, my fine art print prices will remain at the current levels for the time being - but I am expecting them to rise later in 2007.

Due to production costs, my A5 greetings card price will rise to £2.80 this month.

New work by Mark Sunderland has recently been added both to the Alamy collection and to The National Trust Photo Library.

Mark now has over 2000 images placed with Alamy.

Also, over 100 of Mark's images of the British countryside are exclusively available from NTPL.

Mark Sunderland's Yorkshire Through The Seasons exhibition is now showing at The Stairwell Gallery, Harrogate Library!

A new image series entitled A Yorkshire Summer has been added to the website, featuring ten new images taken across Yorkshire during the summer of 2006.

Summer Heather - Hole of Horcum, North York Moors

Along with the earlier autumn, winter and spring image series, this completes the set of images on show in the Yorkshire Through The Seasons exhibition at Harrogate Library from Monday, 11 December through to Saturday 23 December.

So says the local press!  My new exhibition Yorkshire Through The Seasons, which starts on Moday 11th December 2006, gets a mention in this week's Knaresborough Post, along with two photographs, Summer Heather and Oak Trees in Spring.  Plus, the Weekend what's on guide (also included in the Harrogate Advertiser) has a feature on the exhibition along with my Pen-Y-Ghent image.

The exhibition is at Harrogate Library and continues until 23rd December 2006.

See a brief version of the article online at:

http://www.knaresboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=20&ArticleID=1920798

This month's image is a late autumn/early winter image taken last year at Brimham Rocks, Nidderdale, Yorkshire.

This image is one of 35 images in my Yorkshire Through The Seasons exhibition starting next Monday 11th December 2006 at:

The Stairwell Gallery
Harrogate Library
Victoria Avenue
Harrogate
HG1 1EG

I will be appearing at a few additional arts and crafts fairs up to Christmas.  The full list of dates is:

11th November 2006: Christmas Craft Fair, Village Hall, Stamford Bridge, near York (10am - 2:30pm)
18th November 2006: Craft Fair, Grassington Town Hall, Grassington, North Yorkshire
26th November 2006: Mosaic Arts Market, Chancellors Court, Leeds City Centre (near The Corn Exchange)
3rd December 2006: Arts and Crafts Fair, Henshaw's Arts and Crafts Centre, Bond End, Knaresborough, HG5 9AL
10th December 2006: Mosaic Arts Market, Chancellors Court, Leeds City Centre (near The Corn Exchange)

The full events list is at: http://www.marksunderland.com/events.html

This month's image is an autumnal scene from Strid Wood, taken at about this time last year, when autumn seemed a little late.  It seems even later this year!

This image also features in my Strid Wood Viewpoints article in the November issue of Outdoor Photography magazine - but hurry, as the new issue is out tomorrow!

Mark Sunderland Photography is pleased to announce that all online payments will from today be handled by PayPal.  This gives additional flexibility, allowing customers to pay through their existing PayPal account if they have one, whilst still retaining the ability to pay securely with a credit card without the need for a PayPal account.

Along with this change, a new smaller 30x24cm print size has been introduced at just £27, and online prices of all prints have been brought into line with sales at art markets and shows, with postage and packing now being charged separately on the website.  This represents an overall reduction in prices.

For full details see the information page at

http://www.marksunderland.com/prints.html

This month's image is from Strid Wood in Wharfedale...

Swirling Leaves has appeared in this blog already, but it is this month's image in honour of the fact that it is included in my Strid Wood Viewpoints article in the November issue of Outdoor Photography magazine, out on October 5th!

A new image series entitled Spring in The Dales has been added to the portfolio section at www.marksunderland.com

This is a short series of five images, including Oak Trees in Spring, below and the panoramic images Gordale Beck in Spring shown previously on this blog.

To view the images go to http://www.marksunderland.com/Portfolio/SpringInTheDales.html

I would like to thank all of my customers and visitors to my stand at Studio 95 during the Brick Lane Festival weekend for the positive feedback on my images.

The image grabbing the most attention was without doubt Swirling Leaves...

...whilst the most popular choice of greeting card was North Window and Turret Arch...

Don't forget the special exhibition online orders 10% discount code is exhib10 - just enter the code in the promotion code box in the shopping cart at www.marksunderland.com and click the Go button to claim the discount on all orders over £40 until October 15th 2006.

Finally - all of the greetings cards which were on show at the exhibition are now available for online purchase, plus a few additional new designs just added, so check out the card range soon at:

http://www.marksunderland.com/cards.html

As promised in my last email newsletter, and to coincide with the upcoming Brick Lane exhibition, I am pleased to announce a 10% discount on all online orders over £40 made through www.marksunderland.com until October 15th 2006!

To take advantage of the offer, simply enter the promotion code exhib10 in the promotion box in the shopping cart, and click the Go button to apply the discount.

See you at the exhibition!

I will be exhibiting a selection of old and new work as part of a mixed visual arts exhibition presented by Ickenox Fine Art Exhibitions at Studio 95 in The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, London from 8-10 September 2006, coinciding with the Brick Lane Festival.

The exhibition venue is: Studio 95, The Old Truman Brewery, 95A Brick Lane, London E1 6QL.

The preview will take place on Friday 8th September 6pm - 9pm.  All welcome!

The exhibition continues on Sat 9th September 10am - 7pm and Sun 10th September 9am - 7pm.  Free admission.

Event organiser: www.ickenoxartshop.co.uk

Old Truman Brewery: www.trumanbrewery.com

Brick Lane Festival: www.bricklanefestival.com

This month's image was taken last autumn in the Yorkshire Dales...

I was photographing West Burton Falls in Wensleydale, and noticed this tiny waterfall in the stream at my feet as I was working.  I was attracted to the zig-zag line of this composition, which I prefer to the images of the main falls that I got on that day!

It's all change at McQueens Cafe in Knaresborough with a new set of artwork on show!

I now have a selection of six local images on display, including this shot of Knareborough Castle.

Along with the Knareborough images, I still have the two sandstone images Sandstone Swirls and The Tooth on show, as announced in a previous post.

McQueen's can be found at 51 High Street, Knaresborough - see www.mcqueens.eu for details

Excerpts from a recent press release...

Knaresborough photographer Mark Sunderland has won a defining image competition run by English Heritage photography project ‘Images of England’.  Mark, who has been an Images of England volunteer for over a year, photographed the East Pier Lighthouse in Whitby and his image was selected from thousands as the winner.  Mark won a state of the art digital camera, a Photoshop training session and a £500 voucher for ‘Sky imaging (UK) Ltd’ who sponsored and judged the competition.

East Pier Lighthouse, Whitby by Mark Sunderland

Krystyna Szulecka, also from Yorkshire, took second place in the defining image competition with an image of a listed Boundary Stone near Long Preston, winning a ‘Sky Imaging (UK) Ltd’ voucher.  For further details on Krystyna’s work, see her website www.clikc.co.uk

This month's image is one of the oldest images on my website, but remains a firm favourite.

I took this image on my first trip with a group with Nigel Turner around the Canyons of The South West in 1995.  We had stayed at Moab, quite some distance away, rather than in Arches National Park itself, so had to get up very early to be at this location in time for the summer sunrise.  I've seen quiet a few images of this subject, and they mostly have plain blue sky behind the arch, so we were quite lucky with the nice cloud formations on the horizon - however, this nearly spoiled the shot completely, as the low cloud was all around and it obscured the rising sun initially, making the formations look flat and lifeless.  Fortunately, a break in the cloud allowed the sun to stream through for a few moments, making the rocks glow and making this shot possible.

I will be appearing in the 'Good Day Bad Day' feature on the Steve Lamacq show this afternoon at 16:45 GMT should you be near a digital radio, digital TV or internet connection!

The internet link is http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music

If you missed the show, you can listen again (to Thursday's show) for the next week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/

If you missed the Poetry in Picture show in Leeds in May, you can now catch two of the images from my Poetry in Sandstone panel on display at McQueen's Cafe, 51 High Street, Knaresborough.

The images are Sandstone Swirls and The Tooth:

I also have a selection of other South Western USA images on show at McQueen's, along with two English images Staithes and Burton Cliff.

See the McQueen's website at www.mcqueens.eu

This month's image is the mysterious Silk In The Wind taken in Antelope Canyon in Arizona:

This image was taken looking almost directly upwards from the deep slot canyon floor towards this light above, giving the dark outline all around the subject.  Many people have said that this image looks more like a soft material rather than sandstone, and one remarked that it looked like silk blowing in the wind - hence the title!

Mark Sunderland Photography has teamed up with local bespoke printing firm Shake Design to offer a range of images on a variety of canvas and fabric surfaces.  These pieces are supplied on box frames ready to hang.

A wide range of Mark Sunderland images is available, including Sandstone Swirls below, which looks great on the Poly Satin surface.

Unlike traditional canvas prints which can easily be damaged, Shake Design's fabrics are highly durable and won't crack, rip or sag.

Visit Shake Design here: http://www.shakedesign.com

Read more about the print finishes here: http://www.shakedesign.com/d/why-choose-our-wall-art-10

Sandstone Swirls print: http://www.shakedesign.com/p/photo-gallery--wall-art-20/landscapes-22/sandstone-swirls-70

New Yorkshire images have been added to the Mark Sunderland collection on Alamy, including the brand new Yorkshire Wheel (below) at the National Railway Museum in York.  This latest upload takes the total number of Mark Sunderland stock images available on Alamy to over 1500!

Click here to see the full Mark Sunderland collection on Alamy

Regular visitors to my site will know that I change the main page image every month.  As it's June now I thought I'd go back to my summer solstice (well, almost) image of Glastonbury Tor...

I took this image a few years ago now.  It was a couple of days before the solstice as there was a clear weather forecast that day, but it was raining on the solstice itself.  However, I was pleased with the sun's position just at the base of the tower.

I actually arrived far too early for this image, not knowing how long after sunrise the sun would appear over the Tor.  So, I had stumbled up the hill in complete darkness and watched the sky change colour around the Tor as the sun came up.  It didn't reach this point until around six, so I had quite a wait.  On the way back down the hill, I noticed a chap sleeping in a bivvy bag near the path - an early arrival for the solstice celebration it would seem - I must have walked right past him in the dark, so he's lucky I didn't stand on him!

See the site main page at http://www.marksunderland.com

The Glastonbury Tor image is at http://www.marksunderland.com/Portfolio/EnglishSeasons/GlastonburyTor.html

I have been using digital capture for some time now for my stock images, but since moving up to a camera with a full-frame sensor (the Canon EOS 5D) last autumn I have also been using this for my landscape work. My new autumn and winter in the dales images, including Silver Birch, Brimham Rocks below have been produced in this way.

As a result, I have for some time been looking for a digital printing process in order to produce fine art prints from my new images, as I can't use the Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) darkroom process that I used for my film based images.

So, I have been working with an Epson Ultrachrome K3 printer for a while now, trying out a variety of fine art papers.  My favourite by far has been the Impart Photo Smooth High White Cotton 315gsm fine art paper which I sourced direct from the James Cropper paper mill (www.papermilldirect.com) not that far away in Kendal, Cumbria.  This is a 100% cotton paper which gives excellent archival properties with the Ultrachrome K3 inkset, estimated at 75+ years.

I have been very pleased with the results and, although I did like the ultra high gloss surface of Ilfochrome, I am delighted with the colour reproduction in my new prints.  The paper also has a great feel to it, and is less prone to kinks and buckles than the almost metallic Ilfochrome surface, so I find I can mount it in just an acid free window mount with a backing card without the need for sticking the print to 5mm foamboard, which is much better from an archival point of view.

My recent panel of images in the Harrogate Photographic Society's Poetry in Pictures exhibition in Leeds used this process, and the results were well received, I am pleased to say.

I am therefore, from today, offering these lovely new digital prints as standard from all of the images on my website in A4, A3 and A3+ sizes.  This has the added benefit that I can can print the images myself and sign the work onto the image border inside the window mount, giving me complete artistic control over the whole process which I have not had since I printed black and white in the darkroom.

For further details visit http://www.marksunderland.com/prints.html or browse through the image portfolio at http://www.marksunderland.com/portfolio.html

Until I can also offer an A2 sized print, I will continue to produce Ilfochrome prints up to 24x20 from my 5x4 film originals (smaller from smaller formats).  Please get in touch with me directly to arrange this service from now on.

The good thing about using a blog to post my news articles is that I can include things that wouldn't go in my email newsletter, such as work in progress.

This image was taken just yesterday in woodland around Gordale Beck just below Janet's Foss near Malham.

The wild garlic is in full flower at the moment, which was the main reason for my visit, but the lighting was a bit tricky, and it was a touch windy for landscape photography involving trees!  I captured this during a bit of a lull, and I think there's just enough movement in the leaves to add a bit of impact.

For those of you who are interested in these things, this is a stitched panorama using three images from a Canon EOS 5D.  I've cropped it a little at top and bottom to produce something in the 6x17 format.

I think it works rather well - feel free to comment!

The new stock image section on Mark Sunderland Photography is always being expanded with sample stock images.  This expansion is currently concentrating on images of Yorkshire.  The thumbnails on the site link directly to the image on Alamy for immediate online licensing.  Images may also be requested direct from Mark Sunderland Photography on CD or by ftp.

To see the stock collection go to www.marksunderland.com/stock.html

There are still a couple of weeks left to see the Poetry in Pictures exhibition of work by Harrogate Photographic Society in the Tonic Artspace at Leeds General Infirmary.

The exhibition includes a panel of six of my images, entitled Poetry in Sandstone, and including The Tooth, below.

Poetry in Pictures

Gilbert Scott Gallery
Tonic Artspace
Leeds General Infirmary
Great George Street Entrance
LS1 3EX

From 3rd to 27th May 2006

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