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From the Mountains to the Sea - part 2 of 1 2 3 4 5

Published 01/04/2013

Given all this, it's perhaps scarcely surprising that John and Marion's business goes under the name of 'Chasing the Light Photography', and each image that is triumphantly brought home has been hard won and is duly cherished as a valuable artefact. The beauty of digital technology is that it's now possible for photographers to bring their work together and to self publish, and John recently marked the opening of his oneman mono exhibition in Capel Curig - which formed part of the 2012 Snowdonia Arts Festival - by selecting the best of his Snowdonia images and compiling them into a single volume, 'From the Mountains to the Sea,' using Blurb software. It's possible to flick through the pages on the Blurb website and John has printed up a small number of physical volumes that he shows around at his workshops and lectures, but he concedes the price of a low print-run series is just too high for him to make them economically available.

"Even if it's difficult to put on general sale, I love the idea of a book because it's a great way to bring a project together and to give it some boundaries," he says. "It's also really good for me to be able to hand the book around when I'm talking so that people see the work presented in a way and in an order that I'm happy with. It's similar in some ways to the principle of the A/V shows that Marion and I work on: this is a good way to work when there is simply too much to say in a single image, and it allows us to tell a coherent story."

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