A landscape photographer friend of mine, James Grant, has just completed compiling a book about his local passion of shooing in the Peak District. In the Peak District the public has a right of access to about 500 sq km of Access Land in the National Park. This includes moors, heaths, commons, unimproved hills and…
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Anyone that knows me knows I love landscape photography. Getting out with the camera, whether on my own, or with friends, is great especially when the conditions are jaw dropping. But also, after many many shots, many many trips out and away, staying in with a good film, Mrs Fox for company and maybe a…
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I have pre-ordered the Sony A7RII (ILCE-7RM2) which I find pretty exciting for many reasons but I won’t go into the main advantages over my current A7R. You can find those pretty much everywhere but I intend on reviewing this camera with my A7R. However there are few things that I will need to chane in…
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I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while now. I’ve been into landscape photography for a relatively short while really, just coming up to three years since I bought my first full frame camera system, a 5D mark II and 24-105 f/4 L. It has been a steep learning curve not just technically, but…
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I was kindly asked by Wex Photographic to write a blog on my recent entry of their weekly photographic competition on Twitter, entitled #Wexmondays. It is open to all, and submissions are open untill 12pm on the Monday. The image has to be taken during the past 7 days (they do check the EXIF). Each…
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I was contacted by Sue Viccars, editor of Dartmoor Magazine, to provide a number of possible images for an issue of the 2015 magazine. This is a collaborative effort with 3 other Devon based photographers and organised by Alan Howe with Neil Porter and Anna Curnow. We decided that Alan contributed to the spring issue,…
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I have to say it is only recently, since I have become a photograper, that I have started to appreciate this plant more. For quite a few years, especially whilst out mountain biking or walking around I would pass it by. But now, like carpets of bluebells, wild garlic seems to be more common than…
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I’ve updated Lightroom 5.7 to version 6, although mine is a copy via the Creative Cloud subscription and released a few hours after the official release date/time form Adobe (just before their servers suffered from a bit of a swamp of requests). The download for the stand alone version however has been tricky to find.…
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‘ve been thinking about writing an article on what I think drove me, and perhaps others, into landscape photography. If someone had said 3 years ago that I was going to get up at 3am to shoot the sun rising, after a long drive, to a remote location, taking 30 mins to walk there in…
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