https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/index.html Reflective writing on landscape photography, process, and long-term observation by Manuel Pinar. en Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/from-photojournalism-to-personal-projects.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/from-photojournalism-to-personal-projects.html Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 On moving from daily photojournalism at Última Hora to long-term landscape work on 4×5 colour film: what changed and what remained. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/photographing-menorca-outside-tourist-season.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/photographing-menorca-outside-tourist-season.html Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Documentary landscape photography in Menorca when the island pauses, territory, absence and the slow rhythm of 4×5 film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/how-repetition-builds-a-travel-photography-series.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/how-repetition-builds-a-travel-photography-series.html Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 On building a travel series through fixed framing and displacement, fair structures across Menorca, photographed on 4×5 colour film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/documentary-photography-water-as-managed-landscape.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/documentary-photography-water-as-managed-landscape.html Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Water not as nature but as infrastructure: a documentary approach to territory, regulation and landscape on large format film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/travel-photography-china-engineered-river-taiyuan.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/travel-photography-china-engineered-river-taiyuan.html Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Photographing the Fen River in Taiyuan as managed urban landscape, travel, territory and 4×5 documentary work in China. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/urban-density-travel-photography-tokyo-yosekiritsu.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/urban-density-travel-photography-tokyo-yosekiritsu.html Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Building ratios, urban density and the visual order of Tokyo: a travel photography project on 4×5 colour film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/documentary-photography-edge-of-the-city-sesena.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/documentary-photography-edge-of-the-city-sesena.html Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Peripheral housing before the city arrives: documentary landscape photography in Seseña, Spain, on 4×5 colour slide film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/quarries-documentary-landscape-altered-terrain.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/quarries-documentary-landscape-altered-terrain.html Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Quarries as constructed landscape: documentary photography of extraction, geometry and absence on large format film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/figure-and-landscape-documentary-photography-andalucia.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/figure-and-landscape-documentary-photography-andalucia.html Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 How portraits encountered on location integrate into landscape: documentary photography in Andalucía on 4×5 colour film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/typology-memory-travel-photography-series-genets.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/typology-memory-travel-photography-series-genets.html Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 The Menorcan horse as presence in landscape, typology, cultural memory and travel photography on 4×5 film in Menorca. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/isolation-landscape-documentary-photography-lonely-bush.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/isolation-landscape-documentary-photography-lonely-bush.html Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Documentary landscape work built on isolation and double reading: personal photographic experience without illustrating the news. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/how-i-choose-locations-landscape-photography-projects.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/how-i-choose-locations-landscape-photography-projects.html Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Personal method for choosing locations: light, spatial balance and territorial conditions across Andalucía, Menorca, Seseña and abroad. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/how-to-sequence-documentary-photography-project.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/how-to-sequence-documentary-photography-project.html Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Portfolio editing for documentary series, sequencing Just Water, Enclusa and Quarries as long-form visual narratives on large format film. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/memory-and-territory-landscape-photography.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/memory-and-territory-landscape-photography.html Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Landscape photography as memory of use and absence, connecting Enclusa, Closed Island and Origen through long-term observation. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/photo-editing-after-scan-4x5-film-exhibition-print.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/photo-editing-after-scan-4x5-film-exhibition-print.html Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Photo editing for large format work, scanning colour slide film, resolution for 120×100 cm prints and restraint in post-production. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/travel-photography-4x5-large-format-camera.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/travel-photography-4x5-large-format-camera.html Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Personal experience of travelling with a 4×5 camera, slow observation across China, Japan, Germany, the United States and Spain. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/documentary-photography-observation-vs-illustration.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/documentary-photography-observation-vs-illustration.html Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 On documentary work as sustained observation, staying with a territory until the frame holds its condition, rather than illustrating a theme. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/why-returning-to-the-same-landscape-changes-your-photography.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/why-returning-to-the-same-landscape-changes-your-photography.html Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 On long-term observation at S'Enclusa, Menorca, why repeated visits to the same place matter more than a single decisive moment. https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/why-i-photographed-the-enclusa-project.html https://manuelpinar.com/field-notes/why-i-photographed-the-enclusa-project.html Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 On returning to Menorca, the slow rhythm of 4×5 film, and why an abandoned military site became a long-term study of landscape, memory, and natural reclamation.