Independent photographic zines exploring atmosphere, landscape, memory, and repeated observation across North Hampshire.
A growing collection of independently published photographic field journals created through walking, weather, and quiet observation.
These small digital zines collect ongoing bodies of work shaped by dawn light, mist, ancient landscape, seasonal change, and repeated walks through the Hampshire countryside.
Each issue focuses on atmosphere rather than spectacle — slow photography created through returning to familiar ground under changing conditions.
ABOUT THE FIELD JOURNALS
The Field Journals series began as a way of gathering photographs, notes, and reflections into quieter and more thoughtful publications outside the structure of traditional blog posts.
Rather than simply documenting places, each issue explores the changing emotional character of landscape through weather, silence, memory, and repeated observation.
Created independently and released as free digital editions, the journals form an ongoing archive of photographic work shaped through walking and time.
CURRENT ISSUE
ISSUE Four
One Roll in Oxford
Street and architecture photography exploring permanence, transience, and the weight of light on ancient stone.
Made in a single day with one roll of Kentmere 200, this fourth issue moves away from the open countryside and into the city — finding the same questions about time and place in cobbled streets, famous squares, and the quiet lanes that most visitors walk past without stopping.
Inside this issue:
- Street and architecture photography from central Oxford
- Observations on tourists, locals, and the city they share
- Reflective notes on shooting with a single roll of film
- Studies of blown highlights, hard blacks, and selective Orton technique
- A sequenced photographic journey through one morning in Oxford
20 pages — Digital PDF Edition
Digital PDF Edition
FROM THE JOURNAL
Passing Through
Stone on three sides. A spire climbing into white. Figures moving through spaces built for permanence.
Nobody looking up. Nobody staying long.
The city was here before all of them. It will be here after.
FORTHCOMING ISSUES
Aldermaston Wharf
ARCHIVE / PREVIOUS ISSUES
Between Fog & Light – Issue One
Atmospheric dawn photography exploring mist, silence, and first light across North Hampshire.
Created during repeated early morning walks through open fields, woodland edges, and ancient landscape, this first issue focuses on those brief moments where fog softens the countryside and transforms familiar places into something quieter and less certain.
Inside this issue:
- Atmospheric dawn landscape photography
- Reflective field notes
- Essays on photographing mist and atmosphere
- Quiet observations from repeated morning walks
- A carefully sequenced photographic study of fog and first light
28 pages
Digital PDF Edition
Echos of Calleva – Issue Two
Ancient landscape photography exploring silence, memory, and the lingering presence of Calleva Atrebatum.
Created during repeated walks around the Roman walls and surrounding landscape at Silchester, this second issue focuses on the quieter details often missed; worn paths, shifting weather, grass-covered earthworks, and the feeling of standing where history still presses gently through the landscape.
Inside this issue:
- Atmospheric landscape photography from the Roman town of Calleva
- Reflective field notes
- Essays on landscape, history, and memory
- Quiet observations from repeated visits to the walls
- A carefully sequenced photographic study of ruins and atmosphere
33 pages
Digital PDF Edition
Watership Down – Issue 3
Landscape photography exploring atmosphere, seasonal change, and the quiet movement of light across the hills of North Hampshire.
Created during repeated walks across Watership Down and the surrounding countryside, this third issue focuses on open ground, shifting weather, distant horizons, and the subtle changes that define the landscape through time and return.
Inside this issue:
- Atmospheric landscape photography from Watership Down
- Observations of seasonal change across open countryside
- Reflective field notes from repeated visits
- Studies of light, weather, and horizon space
- A sequenced photographic exploration of paths, fields, and open ground
29 pages
Digital PDF Edition
THE APPROACH
The journals are intentionally slow.
Created through repeated walks rather than single visits, the work focuses on atmosphere, light, weather, and the gradual familiarity that develops through returning to the same landscape over time.
Photography here becomes less about dramatic moments and more about observation — noticing how mist changes distance, how light reshapes open ground, or how silence alters the experience of place.
COLLECT PRINTS
Selected photographs featured throughout the Field Journals are also available as fine art prints.
View available collections, framed prints, and photographic works through the main gallery.
FINAL NOTE
The Field Journals remain ongoing.
Each issue continues the walk a little further.
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Stephen Paul Young