Video is one of those contentious subjects for photographers that tends to bring about debate in the same way as HDR or the iPad. Everyone has an opinion and even those of us who profess to indifference on the matter often find ourselves secretly whispering ‘I wish they’d leave it off the camera so we [...]

As you’ll already know from the previous post, last week I was in a beautiful part of the Lake District called Buttermere. It’s one of those places where if you haven’t been before, your jaw drops, and you become so astounded by the beauty, you almost don’t want to put the camera to your eye [...]

Regular visitors to this site will already be familiar with the name David duChemin and the inspirational work he does with both the lens and the pen. Anyone else, where have you been hiding and is your name Osama!?!? You see, apart from being a great inspiration and thoroughly nice chap, David duChemin, when he’s [...]

There is a danger inherent in looking back at the work of those that have gone before us that I think can often be as much of a hindrance to progress as it can be an inspiration. We are photographers, and so, we naturally tend to look at images as photographers. That would be great [...]