27th September 2020
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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4th August 2020
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 […]
28th May 2020
One of the questions I get asked most regularly is about image editing and developing software. A bewildering array of advice exists, often too complex to […]
11th January 2019
Get up early We usually think of the moon being out at night. But our closest neighbour in the skies can be photographed at dusk and […]
9th June 2018
Choose a theme to take a giant leap with your creativity A friend and I were looking at the picture of Buzz Aldrin standing on the […]
22nd April 2018
I find photography Zen-like. Concentrating on the subject, composing the shot and making fine adjustments to the settings is totally absorbing. It distracts me from the […]
3rd January 2018
There is no such thing as reality Happy New Year! A purely human arbitrary concept, chosen in the past by our ancestors, it doesn’t correspond with […]
27th September 2017
The Ingredients Two-years BG (Before Google), I worked at an outdoor education centre in a remote village on the beautiful west coast of Scotland. It’s a […]
23rd August 2017
Photography taught me to look at the world in a different way and think about what I see. It taught me to concentrate on the details […]