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6th June 2025

What Have I Been Up To?

What Have I Been Up to With My Camera? It’s been a while since I last posted a blog here, but I intend to start again, […]
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14th July 2021
How Reliable is your Camera Brand? Man falling in water froma canoe.

How Reliable is Your Camera Brand?

When I’m in a gathering of large numbers of other photographers, it seems there are always cameras from one brand going faulty. My family once owned […]
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16th February 2021
Safety: Mountains in the summer

Safety and Photography

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10th February 2021
Coquet Sunrise - Website image

Websites Time

Why having your own website is a good idea, and how to go about getting one.
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27th September 2020
The beacon. I was shooting this image when my hat blew off my head.

How to Shoot a Violent Storm.

True love for storm photography. Would you shoot a storm? Storms are superb for landscape photography and they need careful preparation. By mutual agreement, I postponed […]
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26th August 2020
Reality

The Secrets of Recreating Reality – it’s all in the Mind

Should we change the way the world looks with Photography? Photography is art, not reality. In fact, all we perceive is just an invention of our […]
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4th August 2020
View of the evening sea

Planning our Photo Shoots

Northumberland is unique. We are so lucky to live here. It is truly a photographer’s paradise. I suppose the same could be said about many places […]
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20th July 2020

A long time ago in a cinema far, far away…

A long time ago in a cinema far, far away… A long time ago in a cinema far, far away… well, 40-years back at an Odeon […]
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16th July 2020
My wife walking on the beach, shot with my old Olympus E-510 in 2011

Why my blog post for Olympus got lost

Do you accumulate cameras? I do. I have just passed some on to others for their enjoyment, this included a couple of 1930s Twin Lens Reflex […]
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