I have received a new tripod from a new company to trial over the next few weeks - may I introduce the Colorado Tripod Company - a sister organisation of the popular Breakthrough Photography Company, whose filters I use in my digital world. I have...
Yes, the place is trashed. I don’t mean the buildings themselves, but the sand is trashed. Ok, its not easy to climb around inside sand-filled rooms without leaving a trace, but no one seems to give a shit about anyone other than their Instagram....
There are few places in the world that I have have found more bizarre, more compelling and more photographically rich than ‘eBay’. Yes, that’s right, before the behemoth of phone based, online window shopping addiction began, eBay was the...
Composition, composition, composition - if you don't beat yourself up, if you do not seek out the very best, then you're just a tourist. A TOURIST!
Well after a totally exhausting week bodyboarding in the Atlantic seas of West Cornwall, I was gestured out to do a night shoot in South Devon. This image is an easy night shoot in principle, but the process is of light painting from two difference...
Not a very exciting lunar eclipse, but a strange half crescent, reminiscent of a half moon much further towards the equator... I have been looking at the effect through my Swarovski scope, enjoying the crater detail in particular. This was...
A few years back I reviewed a landmark, affordable set of binoculars made by a lesser known company called Eden. The 8x42’s have been with me on many photographic adventures, as they are light, tack sharp and full of contrast. This review...
No exactly the most creative of pictures, more for reference, but I shot these noctilucent clouds around 12am on the night of the longest day, 21st June 2018.
With some up and coming Canon talks on the way I have been given another opportunity to explore the EOS-R range and yesterday I got to assemble the new 28-70 f2. It's one outrageous, exotic piece of glass I have ever handled, unpractical for most,...
I have just spent the afternoon attempting to service a 1977 Nikon F2AS, a camera that found its way to me (I didn't buy it), picked out of a box of 'junk' in Amman, Jordan during my Christmas trip to the Middle East.
