Brian Northmore Photography

06/09/2026

There are three things I check before I take every photograph. All three are in this video.

I almost ruined this shoot because I got too excited and forgot the...

23/08/2026

It's been a while but at last I am have got back out with the camera. And even made a new Landscape Photography Video. You can check that out here:

https://youtu.be/W4FB9PVcOw8

07/06/2026

A moment to pause. Watching the sun struggle against heavy banks of clouds, letting the warm and cool tones of the earth ground you. Taking a breath of cool air before a new week begins.

05/06/2026

A printed photograph is an emotional portal. While the morning haze over Headland Warren vanished within an hour, the print preserves the feeling permanently. By using museum-grade archival paper and pigment-based inks, this work serves as a lasting emotional trigger on your wall—reminding you to find quiet, soothing moments for decades to come.

03/06/2026

Heavy overcast days usually threaten to wash out a landscape, but here, the opposite happened. The soft, hazy conditions actually blended the color boundaries together, allowing the warm rust tones of the autumn bracken and the cool slate-blues of the distant hills to complement each other perfectly. Capturing this delicate, ethereal balance requires a print that respects the true subtlety of the moor's palette.

30/05/2026

Sometimes the truest sense of a place is found in its smallest details. It is easy to get caught up trying to capture the grand scale of a landscape, but the sheer size can often feel overwhelming when you are looking for quietness.

This final frame from my morning walk near the viaduct moves away from the chaotic woodland lines entirely. It is a quiet, square view focusing on the clean lines of an isolated stem against a soft purple backdrop. I stood by the path for a long time just watching the wind move the stems. This tiny perspective captures the exact stillness that the larger, messy scenes missed.

It offers a brief moment of mental clarity, away from the constant noise of modern routines, before a demanding week begins. The full narrative and the complete set of images from this spring morning are now available in Exposed Thoughts - Published in time for your Sunday Morning Coffee! (sign up below)
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29/05/2026

The natural world is rarely neat or orderly. When we see photographs of bluebell woods online, they are often perfectly spaced and sterile. The reality of a Dartmoor woodland is different. It is messy, tangled, and stubborn.

For this second composition, I deliberately left overlapping leaves creeping into the upper edge of the frame. It recreates the exact feeling of standing in the thick of the trees, where your view is constantly interrupted by the growth around you. The deep smell of damp earth and moss was heavy on the banking. Trying to force an artificially clean image strips away the true character of the landscape.

Immersing oneself in this unpolished confusion offers a real escape from a rigid, over-structured schedule. The complete field log from this challenging morning is now live on the website. Read the story behind the frames at the link below
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29/05/2026

Finding spaces on Dartmoor that feel entirely unmapped is rare. I spent an hour tracing through steep, uneven banks recently before coming out onto an old public bridleway near the viaduct. Before me lay an immense, untouched expanse of bluebells. Because I had not spent days studying maps or looking at coordinates online, it felt like a true discovery. That quiet, unforced sense of wonder is exactly what I wanted to preserve.

This first image focuses closely on a mossy, fallen branch resting quietly in that early morning light. The lens isolates the rough wood against the purple floor. It is an unedited record of that walk, captured before the rest of the world woke up. For high-stress professionals, these quiet corners of the moor offer a vital mental reset.

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22/05/2026

Double Waters represents a unique kind of freedom. It’s the choice to follow a river back to its source, or to continue forward as one body of water into the future. Dartmoor is a place of infinite paths and chosen directions—a landscape that reminds us of the freedom found in simply following the flow.

20/05/2026

It's all about the wet textures. To capture the raw, dark boulders and the misty ripples of Double Waters, I rely on archival printing that preserves every minute detail. No gallery pretense—just a high-fidelity window into the damp, beautiful reality of a Dartmoor riverbed.