I've read much about taking the perfect photograph. I find the struggle more interesting from the viewpoint of an outsider, not that of a photographer.

The ideal photograph, the "picture-postcard-perfect" image, features rolling green hills, a faultless blue sky, fields and beaches; an uninterrupted vista.

It's the "uninterrupted" that I am having problems with.

Everywhere you look; there are buildings and industry sprouting up.

They, for the most part, serve a purpose. Sometimes a very positive one.

But they also serve to make a photographer's life much more difficult.

This is my first work with landscape photography. Every panorama is poisoned by something artificial.

There's barely a single area in the town I live which isn't spoilt in some way. Mankind's prerogative is to be forever extending its concrete and metal jungle.

Creating but destroying.

A photographer's prerogative is to be forever searching for areas yet discovered by their fellow humans.

This work was made into a handbound book; available to view by contacting Steve Guntrip