Printed magazines aren’t dead yet! I am sure that like me, you have read many articles decrying the death of print. These articles tend to shout about the benefits of e-readers, digital magazines, vlogs, and blogging websites. If you were to read all of these articles, you would soon come away with the impression that […]
Photography Opinion Pieces Articles
Can you really improve your photography for free? Every photographer hits a creative barrier occasionally. It’s not something that happens only to new photographers, everyone is susceptible to stretches of feeling uninspired, unmotivated, and unsatisfied by their own work. It’s in these vulnerable moments when GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) strikes with a vengeance, but new […]
Knowing how to be an intentional photographer is a valuable skill! Intentionality can most concisely be defined as the fact of being purposeful or deliberate. It is doing or saying something that leaves no doubt in the mind of anyone on the receiving end about your ambition. It is a kind of matter-of-fact-ness. I believe […]
It might seem a strange question. Surely choice is a good thing, healthy competition is good for the consumer. More cameras, more lenses, more accessories, more software. The problem is that, in my opinion, we may have gone too far. It seems to me that in the photographic sphere, there are too many products chasing […]
On the face of it, 2021 was not a great year in general or in photography. In the wider world, the pandemic continued to wreak havoc with lock downs and restrictions. In photography the shortage of semiconductors has lead to product shortages and even some lines being closed down. A quick look on DPReview’s camera […]
Pat Naylor died on the 6th of November 2021. He was 88 years old. I doubt any of you know who Pat Naylor was, however, he was one of us, a photographer. He was also my uncle and more importantly, in the early days of my photographic career, my mentor. Today, in a slightly more […]
