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DEPARTURE by Nick Seaman

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YourView- August Selections are here!

Every month we ask a respected professional photographer to select and review five of the best user images submitted using a LEE Filter. This month’s images were reviewed by Professional Landscape Photographer, Steve Gosling!

Read Steve’s reviews and learn more about how each image was captured on our User Gallery

Image 1: Harald K Andersen “Into the Sea” @leefilters 0.9 Hard Grad + Big Stopper+ LEE Real Blue 2 Hard Grad

Image 2: Dragos Ioneanu “Oresund Bridge” @leefilters Big Stopper + 0.9 ND Standard + 0.6 Soft ND Grad

Image 3: Erik Woolcott “Scarborough, South Bay” @leefilters Big Stopper + 0.6 Hard ND Grad

Image 4: Razvan Dan “Lonely Tree” @leefilters Polariser + 0.9 Soft ND Grad

Image 5: Matthew Randle “Three Cliffs Bay” @leefilters Little Stopper + 0.9 Medium ND Grad 

We’re thrilled to have professional photographer Justin Minns select and review next month’s images. Submit by 30th September HERE (please only one submission per person, per month)

Steve Gosling is a professional photographer who specialises in producing creative & contemporary landscape and travel images. His work has won many awards - for example, his landscape images have been successful in the UK’s ‘Black & White Photographer of the Year’ competition and for the last 3 years he has had images shortlisted in the prestigious international 'B&W’ Spider Awards', achieving an Honourable Mention in 2016. He has run a successful workshop program for several years in for several years in locations across the world from Iceland to Antarctica, encouraging and inspiring photographers of all levels. As well as working closely with Phase One and Lee Filters, Steve is an Ambassador for Olympus, Manfrotto/Gitzo tripods & Permajet inkjet papers.

Want to submit an image for September YourView? Submit HERE by 30th September.

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The Steps of the Castle Fortress

The Northumberland coast is known for many things: its spectacular beauty, incredible sunrises … and also the numerous castles! That’s because Northumberland was a heavily contested area between the Scots and the English, nevermind other invading forces such as the Vikings; castles were built for defence and lookouts.

This one in the photo is Dunstanburgh Castle, built sometime in the 14th century. It sits on a piece of headland with gorgeous coast on either side: to the north you have Embleton Bay, and to the south is the Craster coast. This composition was from the southern side looking north, and the geology here is fascinating, thousands of years of being battered by the waves of the North Sea. The rocks here are also covered in this super bright yellow and white lichen. Gorgeous.

Dunstanburgh Castle, Craster, Northumberland, England.

ISO100, ƒ/13 at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using a slim circular polariser and a soft 3-stop ND grad filter stacked on my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a single exposure. Processed in Lightroom, edited in Macphun Luminar, Color Efex Pro, and Photoshop.

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The Picnic Shore

Magnificent Grasmoor rising suddenly above the glassy surface of Crummock Water. It was one of those impossibly perfect days, and clearly other people thought so too: lots of folk around the shore, enjoying picnics, playing with their dogs, a proper Lake District holiday scene.

Crummock Water, Lake District, Cumbria, England.

ISO100, ƒ/9.0, 1⁄60sec at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using a slim circular polariser and a soft 3-stop ND grad stacked on my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a single exposure shot three times for focus stacking. Processed in Sigma Photo Pro, blended in Photoshop and edited with Color Efex Pro and Macphun Luminar.

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Remnant of the Retreating Coast

At the 8-metres high (26ft), the Kip stands out amongst the fascinating geological formations of the Coldingham Bay coast. It’s interesting to visualise this sea stack as once being a part of the bay’s headland, and then trying to imagine how it would’ve eroded away to become isolated. I imagine there was once a sea arch here. Time is a wonder.

Coldingham Bay, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

ISO100, ƒ/22, 2secs at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using a slim circular polariser and a soft 3-stop ND grad filter stacked on my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a single exposure. Processed in Sigma Photo Pro, edited in Color Efex Pro, Luminar, and Photoshop.

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The Blade of Coldingham

The Scottish Borders coast gave us some delights with the epic St. Abbs Head cliffs. So upon our circuit of the area again recently, we ventured south of St. Abbs to another beauty spot unknown to us: Coldingham Bay.

St. Abbs was very much all about crag and cliffs, but while Coldingham had its fair share of crag, it also featured a delightful sandy beach. Whilst Lisabet went paddling in the North Sea, I made to the northern head of the bay, my eyes locked on the 26ft-high sea stack simply known as The Kip. =)

Coldingham Bay, Coldingham, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

ISO100, ƒ/18, ¼sec at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using a slim circular polariser (to remove glare from the rockpools) and a hard 2-stop ND grad filter (to darken the sky) stacked on my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a single exposure, processed in Sigma Photo Pro, edited in Photoshop.

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YourView- May Selections are here!

Every month we ask a respected professional photographer to select and review five of the best user images using a LEE Filter. This month’s images were kindly reviewed by landscape, nature, and travel photographer Lizzie Shepard.

Read Lizzie’s reviews and learn more about how each image was captured on our User Gallery

Image 1: Pawel Klarecki “Sakrisoy, Lofoten, Norway” LEE Filters Polariser + Big Stopper + 0.6 Soft ND Filter

Image 2: Dave MacVicar “Dovercourt, England” LEE Filters Super Stopper

Image 3: Vivek Bishun “Sunrise at Hole in the Wall, South Africa”  LEE Filters ProGlass 0.6 ND Standard 

Image 4: Clarence Butts “Secrets of Wild Orchid Resort- Montego Bay, Jamaica” LEE Filters Little Stopper

Image 5: Nino Frelih “Pekel Gorge (Slovenia)” LEE Filters Polariser 

We’re thrilled to have Paul Gallagher select and review next month’s images. Submit by 25th June HERE (please only one submission per person, per month)

Lizzie Shepard kindly made the selections this month. Lizzie is a professional landscape photographer, speaker, teacher and writer, based in North Yorkshire, specialising in landscape, nature and travel; she also does some commercial photography and commissions. She exhibits her work on a regular basis and a selection of her prints are on permanent display at the Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton. She offers a number of small group workshops and 1­2­1 tuition in the UK and further afield. Lizzie enjoys working in all kinds of conditions, adapting her approach accordingly. She believes instinct is every bit as important as planning in photography. As rewarding as it is to spend hours working a particular scene, she also enjoy that adrenaline rush of having to work quickly to make the most of any fleeting opportunities that come her way. You can learn more about her work at her website

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Its Just Water Under The Bridge

One of the newest additions to my Yorkshire Dales waterfall catalogue is Ure Force: a delightful series of cascades running through narrowed limestone until the River Ure reaches this point and tumbles over a scar directly underneath Yore Bridge. All in all, an idyllic Yorkshire scene. =)

Ure Force, Upper Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.

ISO100, ƒ/14, 1.2secs at 14mm (21mm full-frame equiv.) using a slim circular polariser (to reduce glare from the water) and a hard 2-stop ND grad filter (to darken the sky) stacked on my Sigma dp0 Quattro. This is a single exposure with additional blending help from a lighter and darker exposure. Processed in Sigma Photo Pro, edited in Photoshop.