Black & White Landscape Photography

Black and White Landscape Photographs of Northern Britain made by Paul Maven. Featuring shots from Cumbria, Northwest Scotland and North Yorkshire. Prints and limited editions available.

This collection brings together a broad range of images captured across the fells, mountains and coastlines of Northern Britain. Cumbria features prominently, alongside locations including the west coast of Scotland and the Yorkshire Dales. Throughout the work, there is a recurring interest in the ways in which the landscape has been shaped and marked by human presence.  
Although most of these images are captured digitally, they retain a strong connection to Paul’s earlier work and his beginnings in photography.
“I cut my teeth on 35mm black and white film cameras. There is something very special about the way the tones within the landscape are rendered when working in monochrome.  My portfolio today seeks to capture something of that early experience of shooting on classic film stocks. I have also recently reintroduced film into my workflow.  As much as I love the colours of Lakeland, especially during the autumn months, nothing quite captures tonality and texture like black and white."
You can order a selection of fine art prints and wall art by  visiting his shop here.

The Oban Ferry passes the Eilean Musdile lighthouse, with rain swept mountains and a cloudy sky creating a dramatic, atmospheric scene.
Oban Ferry and rain clouds
Below a summer sky, a bare tree and drystone wall can be seen against a backdrop of Hartsop Fell in Patterdale.
Hartsop Dodd
Gray Crag in Patterdale in shadow against a summer sky with Hayeswater visible in the background.
Grey Crag
A black and white view of Wastwater and the Wasdale Screes set against a striking sky with billowing white clouds
Wastwater and the Wasdale Screes.
A black and white image of Angle Tarn and The Helvellyn Mountains set under and almost cloudless summer sky.
Angle Tarn
A lone paddleboarder crosses a sunlit Applecross Bay beneath dramatic, dark storm clouds, with a silhouetted mountain ridge stretching across the horizon.
Paddle Boarder. Applecross Bay.
A black-and-white landscape photograph looking down over Thirlmere as it winds between steep, rugged hills, with wooded slopes and scattered dead trees in the foreground. The calm water reflects the overcast sky, while the valley recedes towards distant mountains beneath a layered cloud-filled sky.
Thirlmere
The Isle of Skye is shrouded in sweeping rain clouds and a dark brooding sky. A large submarine can be seen cruising across the black water on its way to sea.
Rain storm. Isle of Raasay.
Black-and-white mountain landscape with rugged peaks, dark evergreen forest, rolling slopes, and dramatic storm clouds.
Glen Carron.
Black-and-white mountain loch high in the Torrid Mountains in North West Scotland with calm reflective water, rocky shoreline and dramatic clouds.
Loch Toll nam Biast.
Black-and-white mountain landscape with rugged ridges, a deep valley, and billowing clouds overhead, creating a dramatic, tranquil mood.
Beinn Dahm.
Black-and-white landscape shot of a snow capped Causey Pike and windswept ridge,.
Causey Pike
Black-and-white mountain landscape with snow-covered peaks, barren rolling hills, and dramatic storm clouds creating a stark, moody scene.
Early winter snowfall. Lake District
Black-and-white landscape of a solitary leafless tree standing in a dark field, with distant hills beneath a summer sky with high wispy clouds.
Kendal
Black-and-white image showing Blencathra and Carrock Fell in the English Lake district beneath scattered clouds, creating a quiet, expansive, dramatic mood.
Great Calva and Blencathra
A dramatic black and white shot of a line of trees clinging the the cliff edge of a disused slate quarry.
Abandoned quarry workings, Hodge Close 
Under a brooding stormy sky, a ruined Scottish Castle can be seen perched on a cliff overlooking the sea. Sunlit fern can be seen in the foreground.
Gylen Castle,  Kerrera
A black and white image of a steep sided and rugged mountain valley with patches of sunlight illuminating a mountain beck.
Langstrath
A black and white photograph of a broad tree in full leaf. Beneath its broad span can be seen a quiet contrary lane, drystone walls and distant hills.
Matterdale Common
Black-and-white mountain landscape beneath dramatic swirling clouds and bright sunlight, creating a vast, serene yet powerful atmosphere.
Watsons Dodd
Dramatic black and white shot of a Fell Runner descending a very steep scree slope under a clear blue summer sky.
Fell runner, Great Gable
Black-and-white mountain valley with scattered leafless trees, rugged slopes, and rocky ground.
Hayeswater Gill
A black and white photo of dark trees on either side of a shallow valley framing snow capped crags in the distance.
Crinkle Crags
Black-and-white wetland landscape reflecting leafless trees in amongst tall grasses. Rolling hills and dramatic clouds form the backdrop.
Spring Hag
Black and white shot of patches of sunlight highlighting the steep slopes of Striding Edge in the Lake District.
Striding Edge
Strong sunlight picks out a meandering Bowderdale Beck in the Howgill Fells, Cumbria.
Bowderdale Beck.  The Howgill Fells
A black and white image of a calm Thirlmere Reservoir and the snow capped lower slopes of the Helvellyn Range.
Thirlmere
Dark storm clouds rolling over the Grasmere Valley.
Towards Grasmere
A shot of the icy slopes of St Sundays Crag under a bright winter sky with high scattered cloud. The shot is rendered in black and white.
St Sundays Crag
The mirror surface of Easedale Tarn in the Lake District reflects perfectly the crags at the top of Sourmilk Gill
Easedale Tarn
Four weathered trees equally spaced along a rocky outcrop in the Derwent Fells range.
Matterdale
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