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My name is Antony Spencer. I'm a landscape photographer
and I've been photographing landscapes professionally for the last 4 years.
I've been fortunate enough to travel all over the world over the last few years
and photographed some incredible things.
Predominately, working in Scandinavia photographing the Northern Lights.
I became a landscape photographer purely because I always had
a fascination of the outside world, and the geology, exploring the
coast line and rivers, and experimenting with movement.
I bought my first camera just to take photographs of my kids.
After about two weeks of taking photographs of the kids,
I realized that I wanted to do something else and something more.
I really like the swirling foam down here in the water.
Just thinking that using an ND-filter to slow down the exposure might actually
give you a lovely, swirling pool of foam in the foreground.
Wait until the tide comes back in to give some interest to this bland patch of sand
I don't think there's anything that would work.
I won the most major landscape photography competition in the UK
and that gave me a major kick-start in my career.
I've got so many influences in the landscape genre
which is so incredibly popular.
Three of my top photographers would be people like Joe Cornish, David Ward,
and Christian Fletcher.
The images they make are particularly strong and always captivate me and
make me look at and analyze what I'm doing to try and keep up.
The worst shooting conditions I've been faced with was
actually in the last few weeks.
I was out in the Midwest of the USA photographing severe thunderstorms.
Ultimately, the thunderstorms that came our way made my life very difficult indeed.
We had 7 or 8 supercells all around us with tornadoes dropping out of the sky,
huge baseball sized house stones, and ultimately, getting out alive
became a priority rather than trying to make any images.
One of my favorite photographs from recent years would be an image from Iceland
at a geo-thermal region right at the heart of Iceland called Blahver Hveravellir.
I'd given myself ten days to go and take one image
of this fabulous blue pool,
and to turn up and have such tremendous light the first morning
of the trip was incredible and to get that one image meant
I had 9 days to go explore the rest of Iceland.
My favorite location is probably the Lofoten Islands on the Norwegian coast,
especially in winter when it's a winter paradise, a wonderland
because everything is covered in snow and ice.
That's an area I really love to explore.