ABOUT
Picture Credit: Sam Butler
About Joe...
I am an enthusiastic photographer & videographer from North Yorkshire, England. I gained a passion for nature photography from a young age whilst walking in Yorkshire and the Lake District with my family. At the age of fifteen I began taking photos on my father’s digital camera and was instantly hooked with the art of photography and the challenge of capturing the awe-inspiring elements nature conjures up.
I quickly saved up the funds to purchase my own camera in 2010 and have never looked back. I began developing my own preferred style of highly detailed panoramic landscape images, usually created from 10 or more individually stitched frames.
In 2016 I graduated from the University of Cumbria with a first class BA (Hons) degree in Wildlife Media where I created two major film projects in Scotland 'Eigg - Our Island' and 'Sutherland - The Forgotten Corner of Britain'.
Since 2017 I have been working for the University of York as their videographer creating all kinds of different video marketing content whilst still offering my freelance services.
What Luke Hasler says about Joe...
‘Growing up in North Yorkshire, Joe has been fortunate enough to have pristine countryside and views on his doorstep. Constantly inspired by the natural world; mainly the diverse geography and ever changing (and often rapidly) weather in Britain, led him to become a passionate natural history photographer; specialising in landscapes. The stunning landscape of our planet, has stirred a desire in Joe to explore and pursue a career in filming/photographing the natural world’ - Click here
to see some of Luke's work.
Achievements
Despite not entering many photography competitions Joe has had an impressive amount of success in the competitions he has chosen to enter. One of the most significant to Joe is being shortlisted for the renowned 'Landscape Photographer of the Year'
competition in 2015.
Some of Joe's other achievements include:
Runner-up in the Worldwide Wildlife Category in the Eighth Annual Nature Photography Awards ran by the
Scottish Seabird Centre.
Having one of his images used on the cover of the official programme for the popular
Scott Trials Event.
Having one of his images used on the True Highlands Charity Calendar 2016.
Having one of his Aurora Borealis images featured on the BBC Look North News broadcast.
Prints
All of the images in the
'Natural World' section of this website are available for print. Sizes, mounts and frames are all completely customisable to suite your exact requirements. For prices, please fill in a form on the
'Contact'
page, describing which image you would like and how you would like it printed and we will get back to you as soon as possible with a price.
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Equipment
In 2010 Joe purchased his first D-SLR camera, the Canon 400D. He learned the basics on this camera for about a year and then treated himself to something a bit newer, the Canon 550D. This was a workhorse of camera to Joe and he truly learned his trade with it over the next three years, until he eventually took the step up to the world of full frame camera bodies due to an increase in commercial work. The Canon 6D was his first full frame camera body and he later upgraded to a Canon 5D Mark III. Joe now shoots on a Sony A7S III full frame mirrorless body.
Processing
Joe shoots all of his images in a RAW format and later develops them in Adobe Lightroom - a similar process to the traditional way of shooting onto film and developing the negatives in a darkroom.
Joe aims to keep editing to a minimum by getting the settings right in-camera. He only enhances what is already there in the attempt of recreating the natural scene as he saw it at the time of shooting. Joe also uses Adobe Photoshop to digitally stitch his panoramic landscape images together and Adobe Premiere Pro to edit his films.