Photographer Robert Canis spent 30 years shooting one nature reserve: here's what that patience can teach the rest of us

Photographer Robert Canis spent 30 years shooting one nature reserve: here's what that patience can teach the rest of us

Somewhere in the churn of camera forums and social feeds, there's an unspoken belief that a landscape photographer's worth is measured in air miles. New country, new light, new content – the algorithm rewards novelty, and novelty rewards the photographer who's always somewhere else. So it's worth noting that Robert Canis has just published Elmley: First Light to Last, a 208-page coffee-table book built entirely from one nature reserve, 40 miles …