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The 11th UK Landscape Photographer of the Year

Following a failure in my website's primary picture archive, many blogs have lost their images. I am endeavouring to re-instate these from back-ups. Bear with me please while I undergo this labourious and very sweary process...

Headshot session

I have just had the privilege of working with a professional young actor who needed up-to-date head-shots to submit to casting directors in the film and television drama industries. Producing head-shots that are more than just pictures of faces is a challenging task; in a practical, methodological sense, it is partly about lighting, partly about technique and partly about the final processing choices being appropriate for the portraits' end usages. Ninety-nine percent of it h

Hello mojo...

Hello mojo...

D'oh! Typical. No sooner had I written that last blog about no-go mojo than in rolled the fog, out came the sun and - bom shanka! Two days of fresh inspiration... There were spectacular displays of clearing sea mists, windswept cloudscapes and incredible light on the afternoon of the 22nd. I was at Aldwick Bay on the south coast for the low tide and the sunset. The first four images in this blog are a progression of shots that I took during the changing light and weather thro

Moment of Clarity

Moment of Clarity

A day of sea mist and low cloud, obscuring and filtering the sun at dawn, ended up windy, clear and effervescent with strong colours at sundown. Aldwick Bay Nikon D810, 14-24mm f2.8 Nikkor at 14mm, 1/100 second, f13, ISO 64, tripod 17.32, 22nd January 2016 As well as two dominant and complimentary hues providing coral/cerulean colour counterpoint, low tide, soaking wet sands from some late squally rains and an obliging shape dynamic in the cloudscape all came together for thi

No-go mojo

No-go mojo

Pfff... =8-/ It's one of those things. Sometimes you just can't get it to go... Whether it's physiological lethargy, artistic jeopardy, or obstructed energy, we all get rut-stuck from time to time. Above image: Climping Beach, West Sussex Nikon D810, 50mm f1.4 Nikkor, ISO 64, 30 seconds at f9, 10-stop ND, tripod 21st January 2016 I treat the blogging process as very much a show and tell procedure - in other words, if I have nothing to show or to tell then I won't post anythi

Beauty in anonymity, harmony in solitude...

Beauty in anonymity, harmony in solitude...

...Creativity in isolation. Or, without wishing to appear at all pretentious, Zen and the Art of Landscaping. Above image: Littlehampton West Beach Nikon D810, 14-24mm f2.8 Nikkor at 24mm, ISO 64, 1/4 second at f13 17th December 2015 I have written before about the when, where and how of photography. I believe when trumps where pretty much every time. But I would like to say a little about place and how it can affect us. Travel to an iconic location and it is inevitable your

Information, technology and art in the year ahead

Information, technology and art in the year ahead

Being both a technology and an art form, photography has always had a bit of a schizophrenic image issue and has often historically struggled for acceptance in traditional art-world circles. Photographers still have to field the inevitable prejudicial opinion of: "oh, you just push a button, don't you..." A criticism, regarded as a truism, generally levelled by someone who doesn't even know what an f-stop is... Above image: Stonehenge at the end of 2015 Nikon D810, 50mm f1.4,

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