trish french
"Take only photographs, leave only footprints"
- Anon
Thirty years ago, when Ted picked up our first camera to document his parents’ 50th wedding anniversary party, I became hooked on photography. We started our learning journey with a weeklong course at Fern Howe in Braithwaite, Cumbria, sharing the one camera we had between us. We decided to take our photography further and enrolled on a six year ‘Intensive Black and White’ course at Missenden Abbey Adult Learning Centre, which we loved and where our photography and our styles developed.
Ted and I share a love of nature and the beauty around us. I’m as captivated by quiet scenes on beaches and at local woodlands as I am by the grand vistas of northern England, Scotland and Scandinavia. I love experimenting with colour and black and white, and my work is often a little ethereal. Ted and I support The National Trust, English Heritage and RSPB and in anything we do, we ensure that we don’t adversely affect the environment.
Part of a triptych of images made on the sand dunes in East Lincolnshire. The marram grasses have been planted to help prevent erosion of the dunes.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 29.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Part of a triptych of images made on the sand dunes in East Lincolnshire. The marram grasses in the background have been planted to help prevent erosion of the dunes.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 29.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Jokulsarlon Icebergs, Iceland
April 2013: The incoming tide of the Atlantic sweeps the icebergs onto the beach from the nearby glacier and these are always different and the tide ebbs and flows. The colour blue in the ice is the light transmitted or refracted through the ice, which flows down from the glacier and returns on the tide as blue or blue-green icebergs. As I stood in the water, my tripod would move as the water sucked away the sand from the tripod legs but I was fortunate to capture this scene.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 59.4cm x 84.1cm
Edition 1 of 25
Snow covered peaks overlooking the Liland Fjord, Lofoten Islands, Norway. Taken mid morning when the clouds covered the peaks. Patience was required to wait for the mountaintops to peak through the clouds, and then they were gone again.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Vareidsundet rocky beach facing the Flakstad mountains, Lofoton Islands, Norway
March 2014: I felt this scene needed a soft feel to it in contrast to the rocks in the foreground. Therefore I selected a very slow shutter speed to make the water milky. The blue from the slow shutter speed enhances the cold feel, which it certainly was in March.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
February 2017: The weather was as expected rain, rain and a little more rain! So much so that I couldn’t get out of the car with the camera. I decided that producing pictures were the uppermost in my mind so the car was moved to get a picture framed in the windscreen and took them through with the rain lashing down onto the windscreen making the images ethereal quite creative..
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
February 2017: The weather was as expected rain, rain and a little more rain! So much so that I couldn’t get out of the car with the camera. I decided that producing pictures were the uppermost in my mind so the car was moved to get a picture framed in the windscreen and took them through with the rain lashing down onto the windscreen making the images ethereal quite creative.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
February 2017: The weather was as expected rain, rain and a little more rain! So much so that I couldn’t get out of the car with the camera. I decided that producing pictures were the uppermost in my mind so the car was moved to get a picture framed in the windscreen and took them through with the rain lashing down onto the windscreen making the images ethereal quite creative.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Snowy mound leading to the frozen Liland Fjord, Lofoten Islands, Norway
Taken mid morning the views around were spectacular and the feeling of quiet solitude surrounded us as the mist covered the mountains.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes (Death Valley National Park, California)
September 2014: One has to be up before the sun rises and be ready and waiting on the Dunes because the sun rises very quickly and one has to be in the right place to take the picture. That day the temperature rose to 45 degrees, so being in an air-conditioned car is a must if visiting this place. The vistas are spectacular and walking over the dunes is very hard work, so a degree of fitness is required.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Badlands view from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley II
September 2014: These are evening shots just as the sun is going down. This is a very popular viewing area for photographers. Quite a steep walk to the point but well worth the effort. The light is changing all the time so one has to be quick choosing which part to frame and record. The weather was exceptionally hot in Death Valley but the pictures were very rewarding.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Badlands view from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley II
September 2014: These are evening shots just as the sun is going down. This is a very popular viewing area for photographers. Quite a steep walk to the point but well worth the effort. The light is changing all the time so one has to be quick choosing which part to frame and record. The weather was exceptionally hot in Death Valley but the pictures were very rewarding.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 42cm x 59.7cm
Edition 1 of 25
Vareidsundet rocky beach facing the Flakstad mountains, Lofoton Islands, Norway.
Taken AM on Vareidsundet rocky foreshore with the spectacular Flakstad Mountains in the background. Again a slow shutter speed was used to give a calm, peaceful, but cold feel to the image. Lofoten is one of my favourite locations for making images and I would recommend a visit even if one were not a photographer
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Vareidsundet rocky beach facing the Flakstad mountains, Lofoton Islands, Norway.
Taken AM on Vareidsundet rocky foreshore with the spectacular Flakstad Mountains in the background. Again a slow shutter speed was used to give a calm, peaceful, but cold feel to the image. Lofoten is one of my favourite locations for making images and I would recommend a visit even if one were not a photographer
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 42cm
Edition 1 of 25
Part of a triptych of images made on the sand dunes in East Lincolnshire. The marram grasses have been planted to help prevent erosion of the dunes.
Artist: Trish French
Archival pigment print
Image Size: 29.7cm x 29.7cm
Edition 1 of 25