A couple of months ago, Fran Halsall's book revealed the Peak District, captured stunningly by a digital camera. Now the large-format camera of Cornish does the same for the Northumberland Coast. For green hills and shaded dales, read seascapes and images reminiscent of an Andy Goldsworthy exhibition.

Cornish lives in North Yorkshire, and has two galleries there (in Stokesley and Northallerton) so the somewhat secretive coast of the North-East is within easy reach of the man and his camera, and he has had plenty of opportunities to admire – and photograph – the unique light patterns which bless that part of the world.

But there's more to snapping an old boat with a castle standing behind than waiting for the sun to come out and then pressing the shutter release. There's the composition.

And that's why Joe Cornish is recognised as one of the finest landscape photographers in the world. He seems to see beyond the initial photograph. He vacuums in the light and the atmosphere, and everything falls into place.

To Cornish, it's probably not the perfection he seeks, but to anyone else who opens the pages of this book, that won't matter.

The Northumberland coast is an inspiring, haunting, historic, often spectacularly lonely region and Cornish's photographs capture everything. Wave-washed beaches become works of art; man's cast-offs (old boats, tangled masses of wire and fencing, well-worn lobster pots) become intimate parts of the landscape; even the rocks themselves seem
to speak.

This is photography of the highest order – photography of a master who obviously loves his work and the coastline itself. Visually stunning and breathtakingly beautiful.

The Northumberland Coast by Joe Cornish is published by Frances Lincoln , price £14.99. To order a copy from the Yorkshire Post Bookshop, call free on 0800 0153232 or go online at www.yorkshirepostbookshop.co.uk. Postage and packing is £2.75.