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 […]
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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 […]
Photography means a lot of different things to many different people. It brings pleasure, focus, and a sense of achievement to millions of people around the world. I have been doing photography since I was 16, which at the time of writing was some 38 years ago. In that time I have learned a lot, […]
Generally speaking, live music photography is one of the easiest genres to experiment with as a photographer. You have the stage lights at your aid, musicians running around, and people dancing all over. Now, all you have to do is… CLICK! However, to stand out and fully capture all the little things that are going […]
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 […]
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 […]