I make no secret of my age. It’s 54 if you need to know. The best part of 38 of those years has been spent in photography. That photographic path started on my 16th birthday with a $50 Soviet Zenit and has carried on through to modern digital Fuji’s. Like all ventures in life, the […]
Photography Opinion Pieces Articles
I am sure that like me, you have often been told you are doing it wrong. That statement is often applied to many aspects of life but today we are going to look at it in terms of photography. Not long ago, I wrote an article about ignoring the haters in photography. One of the […]
Let’s kick this off by defining FOMO for those who are not aware of the term, Fear Of Missing Out. Let’s also say that this is not one of those full-frame vs smaller sensor bashing articles that are often written with clicks in mind, rather than being a genuine opinion. With that out of the […]
The Internet is a pretty brutal place for newcomers to photography. Like many of you, I am a member of multiple Facebook photography groups. Some are really well moderated and have great members, others… A few weeks ago, in one of my groups, a 16-year-old boy had the audacity to call himself a professional. I […]
Creativity is neither an endless or constant stream. It ebbs, it flows and sometimes it simply leaves you. If you work in a creative industry, that can be problematic. In my case, my primary source of income is travel stock video footage. That in itself requires that I head out to far-flung places, and attempt […]
I am sure like me, many of you have spent a little time in art galleries. Also like me you may well have admired the many beautiful, old portraits that these galleries often display. You may well have wondered about the back story of these portraits. However, if you did delve a little deeper into […]