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Indy Photography
India McLean, photographer, outdoors in Somerset
Castle Cary, September

About

Hello, I'm Indy

I'm a landscape photographer based in Castle Cary, Somerset. I photograph the Somerset Levels and the hills around them, along with the Dorset coast at Ringstead Bay, mostly in the first and last hours of daylight. The work is available as art prints, greetings cards and postcards, and I also photograph local events across the county.

Before photography, I studied art history and classics. Long afternoons with Constable's cloud studies and Virgil's Georgics taught me that a landscape carries the history of the people who worked it, and that light is usually what lets you see that history at all. I still look at a field on the Levels much as I was taught to look at a painting, slowly and with attention to where the light falls.

Everything in the shop comes from somewhere I have stood, often for longer than was strictly sensible. I print, check and post each order myself. My alarm clock and I have an understanding, though neither of us would call it friendly.

See the printshello@indyphotography.co.uk

The camera

Fig. 1. Canon EOS R7

Most of my recent work was taken on this camera and the 18-150mm lens that came with it.

Engraved line drawing of a Canon EOS R7 with the RF-S 18-150mm lens, seen in three-quarter view with its screen flipped out, with five numbered points12345
Fig. 1. Canon EOS R7, with RF-S 18-150mm lens
  1. 1

    Eye-detection autofocus

    It finds an animal's eye and stays with it, which matters when the subject is a wren with no intention of keeping still.

    A spider’s web strung between dried hogweed seed heads, glowing against a misty sunrise
    Web on hogweed, sunrise
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    In-body stabilisation

    The sensor shifts to counter my hands, so I can shoot handheld in the half-light under the trees without everything turning soft.

    Low sun breaking through mist between dark tree trunks, lighting a floor of fallen autumn leaves
    Misty sunrise in the woods
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    An 18-150mm lens

    One lens covers everything from a whole valley to a heron across the rhyne, roughly 29 to 240mm in full-frame terms, which means one less thing to carry before sunrise.

    Sunlight catching beech leaves among tall dark conifer trunks in a dense woodland
    Dappled light
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    A 32.5 megapixel sensor

    Enough detail to print large without the bark dissolving into mush, which is rather the point of a print.

    An old beech trunk wrapped in ivy and moss, with tiers of bracket fungi growing up its bark
    Old beech and bracket fungi
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    A screen that flips out

    I can frame a shot from fern height without kneeling in the wettest part of the wood.

    A dark conifer trunk beside a soft carpet of bright green horsetail and ferns in the woodland understorey
    Horsetail understorey
See the prints

Behind the scenes

What a shoot actually looks like

  • Muddy walking boots and a camera bag on wet grass at dawn
    Somerset Levels, March
  • An open field notebook with pencil sketches and handwritten sun times, a pencil resting across the page
    Castle Cary, February
  • A tripod set up on a riverbank on the Somerset Levels in blue pre-dawn light
    River Brue, November

Say hello

For questions about prints or an event, email me or send a message on social.