Category: Blog

It is a known fact that people associate grey hair with experience and who am I to disagree as my own grey hair has been well-earned, over the years. I like everybody else learnt from my mistakes least of all … Read More

Old photographs.

Once again we find ourselves “Locked down” and not able to get out and take photographs for the third time in less than a year. I spent the first lockdown cleaning and repairing equipment, cameras, lenses, tripods, monopods, … Read More

I often tell younger photographers, “Don’t hide your talent, put your Prints on the Wall.” Growing up with the print and long before the digital age and when shots were counted in batches of 12, 24 or 36. It took … Read More

I held a conversation with a young photographer (forty-five years younger than myself) a few days ago who had read some of my blogs and I am pleased to say he disagreed with a lot I said in them. So … Read More

In these days of digital photography, cameras with auto focus, auto white balance, auto exposure and auto everything else for that matter, it does not matter how many shots you take. The reasoning being that if you don’t like the … Read More

But is it art nice as it is?

There are no paintings or prints of painting hung on my walls of my house. Nor were there any on the wall of my office or studio either for that matter. The … Read More

With half the world locked down in during 2020 you would be correct in thinking photography took a back seat, which of course it has done.  In total lockdown and unable to get out of the house there wasn’t a … Read More

I am often asked by people to suggest a camera for them to become better photographers, which is a question I always find confusing for several reasons. The first one being I don’t know what type of photographer some of … Read More

I was introduce to somebody today who when he was told that I was a photographer acted as if he was shocked. The he laughed out loud and told me “I thought you lot had died out” and added “This … Read More