Recent content by skyandstone

I notice that the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition is now open to entries. The T+Cs are worth studying in light of the NTs aggresive policy. http://www.take-a-view.co.uk/termsandconditions.htm By submitting images to Take a view, each entrant confirms and warrants that: b)...

Join the club Steve, And if they shut me down, I'll start giving them away.

Good news everyone. The protest is gaining momentum. The NT have just lost their first big name photographer, Simon Norfolk, in protest at what the NT are doing. News story here http://www.epuk.org/News/928/simon-norfolk-national-trust

A rather expensive business it was for the forestry commission too Her solicitor Clive Sutton said the law of common rights in relation to the issue went back to the 15th century and the settlement was achieved because Mrs Tee-Hillman could prove she had been picking fungi for many years...

(fingers in ears) lalalalalalalalalalala

Good spot Steve, That was with the forestry commision in the New Forest. Another victory for common law rights on public access land. She won. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-417780/Mushroom-picker-wins-battle-national-park.html There are very good analogies between this case...

Jerry, They will not take out a test case. They will just contact your ISP and bully them into taking down your 'illegal' webpage. The NT rely on ignorant, misinformed and weak willed people to bow to their pressure. Alamy are a good example, backing down under the merest hint of...

I was above the high tide mark and certainly in the forbidden zone. I could almost hear the flushing of the toilets, the jangling of car park monies, and the bellowing of the NT photo police in the NT visitor centre above me.

Can I just reinterate, This is where you should direct your questions and concerns. photo.library@nationaltrust.org.uk

Let me just give you an example of what concerns me. Below the National Trust visitor centre at the Giant's Causeway lies a sea cave. It is rather a large sea cave at 300 yards long and 50 feet high. Yet no official NTPL photographer has ever been there and no image exists of the cave on the...

Let me make absolutely clear. Joe Cornish is in no way a criminal and I do not wish to tar him with the same brush as I do the NTPL. But everyone must agree that an asymmetry exists where a publicly funded body allows only its own chosen photographers to profit from its landscapes on their...

Steve, I hope he does. I also hope he is bound by the terms comminucated by the NT to another member of the flick NT group. Photographers may obtain day licences to photograph at NT properties. These are granted only when a specific project is being undertaken, and must be arranged prior...

Don't get me wrong folks, I respect what the NT stands for in theory. If I visit I expect to pay to use a carpark, toilets etc and I hope that money goes towards protecting these amazing places. What I do not expect is to be told where I can and cannot publish my photographs of natural landscapes.

I would disagree. I don't want to take this off topic by starting a digital versus LF war, but there are many people out there that are getting very good at stitching digital imagery. Also in 99% of cases, the lack of a large format camera would not be a restriction to publication, particularly...

A very good point Hotchef. The market is becoming more dilute as the technology puts high quality imagery into the hands of the masses. I believe that NT images are next to worthless now anyway as public domain imagery and creative commons imagery is available all over the web. There is no...