About Chris Wright
“The Practice of Seeing”
I learned landscape photography the way mountains prefer to be approached — slowly, with respect, and often alone. What began as an escape from London became a fifteen-year exploration of light, solitude, and the technical craft required to do both justice.
The images on this site represent thousands of pre-dawn starts and the gradual understanding that exceptional landscape photography happens at the intersection of preparation and patience.
Each location has been earned through research, physical commitment, and the willingness to return over and over again.
Approach and Equipment
This work emerges from field experience, not theory. Every technique has been tested in conditions that punish the unprepared—from storms on Mulhacén to autumn mists in the Alpujarras.
The images reflect a working knowledge of light behavior, weather patterns, and the logistical realities of accessing Spain’s most compelling landscape photography locations.
My approach prioritizes understanding over equipment, though both matter. I am fundamentally a crafts person valuing art and communication. In my photography, vision without technique is a non starter, to capture fleeting moments of beauty in nature, you have to understand light and the equipment you use to capture it. More than that you need to understand the behaviour of light in weather.
I learned my craft first at the London College of Printing (pre digital cameras) and then as a photographer and video maker in the music industry leading, via a Masters degree in computing, to five years as a lecturer in multimedia technology at the University of North London and a ten year stint as a software architect for IBM, followed by a decade as a commercial photographer specialising in architecture, interiors and food & drink. Exhausting!
The Tools You Need For Creative Photography
You actually need a camera, a couple of lenses, good imagination and the ability to work deliberately from concept to execution.
What you want is a different matter! I am a technologist. I use Canon cameras and lenses, DJI Drones and Action cameras for my videos.
BIPP
I am a member of the British Institute of Professional Photographers