Have you ever wanted to have a go at shooting the milky way but weren’t sure you could with your gear? The truth is that getting a shot of the milky way is more about location than it is about gear. Having better suited gear will make it a bit…

A strange thing happened to my old Nikon D750 DSLR this past weekend and I am not entirely sure why. I had been out on a trip this past weekend and was primarily intending to do some milky way photography. I’ll write more about that separately. I’d gone west, inland…

I saw an image shared on social media the other day and it’s been playing in the back of my mind ever since. Photography then and now. It’s a simple image with a message that is all too familiar to me. I will often take a photo using my mobile…

Can AI produce stock photos as good as stock photo sites? The more I read about AI image generation taking over the job of photographers the more I wonder how much truth there is to it. After all, when photography started, painters claimed it would ruin their art. Did it…

Fear is an odd thing if you spend some time considering it. I was watching a video about urban exploration in the early hours of the morning whilst not being able to sleep. In this video, at a certain point, the person doing it started climbing this tower. …

Just wanted to take a few minutes to share with you, some apps I have found for my android phone that come in handy for certain photography situations. These apps may well be available on Apple devices as well. I do not know. Jack of all trades I consider myself something of a jack…

A quick spur of the moment poem about… —

Often people are told “to be a real photography you have to shoot manual”. Don’t believe it. — I’ve had it said to me and I’m sure others will also have heard it said that to be a “real photographer” you have to “shoot manual”. It’s not true, at least not entirely. Being a “real photographer” might be partly about knowing when (and how) to shoot manual, but…

For a lot of us, there is a very important thing missing from our health and fitness routines. But it’s easy to fix. — First of all, let me say right up front that I am not a health professional and what I suggest here is based on my own observations. It may not work for others like it has for me, but it’s something to consider. For a lot of us, our daily…