Richard Gibbens Photography

Richard Gibbens Photography Mainly landscape photography from north west England, with travels by train and bicycle to the wider

I celebrate all kinds of landscape, with a preference for remote places that I usually reach without private motor transport - because I find managing without a car enhances the challenges, opportunities and intimate experiences of nature that wilderness can impart. In addition I enjoy reportage photography of events that my interests take me to. I have photographs in the following books:
The Call

of the Corbetts by Irvine Butterfield (David & Charles 2001)
The Lakeland Fells: The Fell & Rock Climbing Club's Complete Illustrated Guide for Walkers (FRCC 1996)
The High Mountains of the Alps by Helmut Dumler and Willi P Burkhardt (Diadem 1993)
The Undiscovered Country: The Reason We Climb by Phil Bartlett (Ernest Press 1993)
A Munroist's Log by Irvine Butterfield and Jack Baines (Ernest Press1992)
In Monte Viso's Horizon: Climbing all the Alpine 4000m Peaks by Will McLewin (Ernest Press 1991)
Wild Walks: Mountain, Moorland & Coastal Walks in Britain and Ireland compiled by Ken Wilson and Richard Gilbert (Diadem 1988)
The Central Highlands by Peter Hodgkiss (Scottish Mountaineering Club 1984)
Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal 1983
Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal 1984
Classic Walks: Mountain and Moorland Walks in Britain and Ireland compiled by Ken Wilson and Richard Gilbert (Diadem 1982)

Samba Espirito at Morecambe Jubilee Picnic.
05/06/2022

Samba Espirito at Morecambe Jubilee Picnic.

Cycling the length of the Pyrenees, 2001.More Kodachrome 25 from the archive.(1) Col du Tourmalet west side with my bran...
27/05/2021

Cycling the length of the Pyrenees, 2001.
More Kodachrome 25 from the archive.
(1) Col du Tourmalet west side with my brand new Reynolds 531 Dawes Audax, still in use today. (Well, once I've serviced it!)
(2) Col du Tourmalet summit. It was a cycle camping trip and I'm drying my laundry on my panniers. Too much information?
(3) The wages of virtue: Tarte aux mirtilles et grand crème à l'Auberge de la Sapinière, Col de Port. @ French Pyrenees

July 1971. My story as an independent adventurer begins during my year's study in Innsbruck. Documenting it on the all-m...
27/05/2021

July 1971. My story as an independent adventurer begins during my year's study in Innsbruck. Documenting it on the all-mechanical Voigtländer Vitoret camera my parents gave me for my 14th burthday, with separate rangefinder and Gossen Sixtomat light meter, I was persuaded in a camera shop to try Kodachrome 25 in place of my usual Agfa CT18 slide film. So simple a change, yet so profound an effect! It was like going from 3 megapixels to 30! Even with my simple camera I found I could get spectacular, vibrant results that stand up to scrutiny even now, such are the imaging and archival properties of the unique film technology. Within 9 years I'd bought a used SLR and essentially that's what I'm still using, with a sensor in place of film.

(1) On the Goetheweg, Nordkette ridge of the Karwendelgebirge that dominates Innsbruck. My only mountain gear at the time was an inherited canvas rucksack and my Hawkins Helvellyn fell boots. The rest was my old Marks and Spencer schoolwear: polycotton trousers and (ugh!) white nylon shirt. For weather protection I had a wool jumper and a generic padded anorak. That's it. Luckily I was never caught in bad weather. (I was however nearly wiped out by an avalanche crashing down from high, thawing snowfields into the springtime, snow-free forest far below - but that's another story and a lesson learned about wet-snow avalanches.) Anyway, I'm better equipped nowadays on my local moorland walks than I was then at 2 or 3 thousand metres in Tirol!

(2) Summiting Habicht (3277m), my first 'Dreitausender' (three-thousander) with the Austrian friend who introduced me to Alpine mountaineering, Gerhard Wachter. In the background are the Stubai Alps, culminating in the Zuckerhütl (3505m), which a few weeks later became my second 3,000-er, on my 21st birthday.
@ Tirol Österreich

#гори @ Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso
26/05/2021

#гори @ Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso

Slide copying Day 2: Refined set-up with flash. (1) English Lakes: Bowfell (902 metres) from Broad Crag col, Scafell Pik...
26/05/2021

Slide copying Day 2: Refined set-up with flash.
(1) English Lakes: Bowfell (902 metres) from Broad Crag col, Scafell Pike. April 1986.
Pentax Spotmatic, Kodachrome 25, probably 28mm f3.5 SMC Takumar lens.
(2) Detail of the above.
(3) Set-up used.

@ Scafell Pike

First steps copying my Kodachrome slides 1970s to early 2000s.(1) First result: January 2000, Pentax MX, 70-150mm f/4 Pe...
25/05/2021

First steps copying my Kodachrome slides 1970s to early 2000s.
(1) First result: January 2000, Pentax MX, 70-150mm f/4 Pentax M lens, Kodachrome 25.
(2) Detail from top right: the accidental artistry of grain.
(3) My set-up: Olympus OM vintage 80mm bellows macro kens with slide copier attachment, adapted to Canon 5D Mk III DSLR.
@ Helvellyn

Evening spin to Ingleton. @ Ingleton, North Yorkshire
25/05/2021

Evening spin to Ingleton.
@ Ingleton, North Yorkshire

Stone lines (2)
24/05/2021

Stone lines (2)

Stone lines (1)
24/05/2021

Stone lines (1)

Reluctant summer 2021 #весна #травень #май
24/05/2021

Reluctant summer 2021
#весна #травень #май

Coiled fern (2) #весна
23/05/2021

Coiled fern (2)
#весна

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I’ve mostly celebrated landscape, with a preference for remote places that I usually reach through active, green travel. I have mountain photographs in over a dozen books published in the 1980s and 90s - check them out from the list underneath.

Now I’m channelling my passion into full-time study and work. From a Level 3 Diploma in Photogaphy I’ve progressed to the Arts and Design Foundation (Photography) course at Kendal College. You’ll see my work reflecting its diverse opportunities to develop repertoire, expertise and insight. As a qualified teacher, I’m also gaining a track record sharing that growing photographic knowledge and experience to get others going with camera skills.

Do message me, and we can chat about how I might meet your photographic assignment or basic tutorial needs.

Publications The Call of the Corbetts by Irvine Butterfield (David & Charles 2001) The Lakeland Fells: The Fell & Rock Climbing Club's Complete Illustrated Guide for Walkers (FRCC 1996) The High Mountains of the Alps by Helmut Dumler and Willi P Burkhardt (Diadem 1993) The Undiscovered Country: The Reason We Climb by Phil Bartlett (Ernest Press 1993) A Munroist's Log by Irvine Butterfield and Jack Baines (Ernest Press1992) In Monte Viso's Horizon: Climbing all the Alpine 4000m Peaks by Will McLewin (Ernest Press 1991) Wild Walks: Mountain, Moorland & Coastal Walks in Britain and Ireland compiled by Ken Wilson and Richard Gilbert (Diadem 1988) The Central Highlands by Peter Hodgkiss (Scottish Mountaineering Club 1984) Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal 1983 Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal 1984 Classic Walks: Mountain and Moorland Walks in Britain and Ireland compiled by Ken Wilson and Richard Gilbert (Diadem 1982)