Steve Wood has been walking, running and occasionally climbing in the Peak District for over 30 years. With a background in environmental studies, Steve has also studied the Derbyshire countryside, maintains a website on the history and geology Peak District Landscape: http://www.peakscan.freeuk.com and occasionally runs courses for walkers and riders interested in understanding why the Peak looks as it does. Although he has always taken photographs of Derbyshire, since 2005 Steve has focussed more and more on photography and the problem of how to capture the essence of places with a camera. His inspiration is the 19th century painter, John Constable, who returned again and again to the problem of how to capture the subtleties and light and line he saw in the English countryside. Whilst cameras solve some of the problems of how to record scenes, they introduce others, especially how to show the viewer the many processes work together make up the landscape. Steve’s Flickr pages (where he calls himself ‘peakscan’), show him repeatedly exploring the relationship between sky, water and land in the Peak and elsewhere.