Time to give my old friend (this website) some love and TLC she deserves, you have served me well old girl, we have been through much together 🙂 Immediately some of you will notice the social media side of the website has disappeared. I put much thought into removing both the forum and Photo Wall, the fact is they were not being used and I needed my website back to do other things, especially now The Photo Wall is on […]
Pixabay – Positives and Negatives I will start this post by telling you a little bit about Pixabay for those who have not come across it before. Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist – even for commercial purposes. What my content can and can’t be used for. What is […]
Nostell Priory Crystal Ball Photography – At last I have remembered to break out the Crystal Ball and on the warmest and sunniest day of 2019 so far. A funny story and word of warning before I start sharing images from today – Nostell Priory is a stately home with very nice gardens and grounds owned and kept by the National Trust here in West Yorkshire. Each Easter Nostell Priory holds the Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt where children go around […]
Lock Lane Castleford and the Suicide Bridge: I got out of the car this morning a few miles from where I live and what I hoped to be blue hour followed by sunrise shots was very much not happening, I had thick mist coming off the canal and river that runs almost parallel. I love a challenge and photographing in mist certainly is a challenge, mist can make or break images for sure… The first photo opportunity I came across […]
Free Stock Images and maybe a Coffee? Can any of you remember the free stock photography page in the menu when I first launched this site, no? Well, the ‘Free Stock Images Page’ will soon be back for good. In the next couple of days I will send the stock page live again for anyone to download and use a selection of my images (with restrictions *). Most of the images at the moment are from my early photography days […]
Butterfly Photography for beginners is the title and today I was the beginner at the Butterfly House near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. https://www.butterflyhouse.co.uk Every now and then I like going out of my landscape photography comfort zone and today was one of those days. I fancied getting hot and sweaty in the tropical house and trying my hand at some butterfly photography. On arrival in the carpark, there were 4 coach loads of small children filing out of their coach in […]
Runswick Bay and Mallyan Spout Photography, Hey all, an early start to get to the location, 206 more miles (493 km) on the car, almost record-breaking high temperatures for February here in the UK (the record was broken yesterday) and a very good morning getting to know and get the best from the new camera. The morning started in the beautiful and mostly unspoiled Runswick Bay on the Yorkshire East Coast. Going on a Tuesday Morning is a luxury, no […]
Misty Morning Through The Window, What do you do when you are not able to get out of the house and photograph? Easy, get the camera out of the bag, put on a long lens and see what you can find on a misty morning through the window. That’s what I did this morning anyway and I’m quite happy with the results. The sun was just starting to burn through the morning mist, I thought the trees at the side […]
Free Coastal Sunrise Lightroom Preset Pack – After requests, I am pleased to offer more free Lightroom presets, this time a pack of 8 ‘TH – Coastal Sunrise’ presets for Lightroom CC. If you use Lightroom CC then feel free to grab these presets here. I spend a lot of time working on the presets and adding them to a page here for download, please be courteous and leave a comment on the download page to make the free work […]
Photography around Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire next week – After having a thoroughly enjoyable morning at Flamborough (pictured) last Saturday, I am very much ready for more landscape/seascape photography regardless of weather. Yes, I lost lots of images through a menu mistake in my new camera to do with focus stacking but that is now sorted and next week I have the entire week off work dedicated to photography, I am so up-for-it! Firmly on my list so far is […]
Flamborough Head Yorkshire – The weather yesterday was unseasonably warm and sunny for mid-February, I headed out in the car to Flamborough Head in East Yorkshire, England (UK). My photography goal yesterday was to come back with some nice Focus Stacks (Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field than any of the individual source images.) I had a great […]
Limited Framed Print – the beauty of nature in all her glory at Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire, England (UK). This image will only ever sell framed on this website 10 times:- 5 x Heaven & Hell (20×16″ Print in a 24×20″ Matt Black Frame) – £114.00 (20×16″ professional photographic print set in a 2″ double white window mount and framed in a 24×20″ bold, square profile with a matt black finish.) and.. 5 x Heaven & Hell (22×18″ Illusion (16×12″ […]
Nostell Priory – https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nostell Out walking in the winter sunshine this morning with the family, it was -6C (21F) overnight so the air was fresh and bracing! Beautiful to see the first flowers of 2019 in all their glory. It is still very much winter here in Yorkshire but the first signs are there that spring is just around the corner, a wonderful and exciting time of year. Snapshots with minimal processing, taken with the Fujifilm XT-2 and 55-200mm long […]
Hey All, Not going out photographing has really infused me to go out photographing, I had plans for this morning, photographing near home, but they did not happen, no worries, the sunrise was pants 😉 Instead, I have enjoyed putting in many Photoshop hours and, less enjoyable, product linking hours to make my online store look better, call this version 2.0, after not being happy with version 1.0 I will end this quick scribble with a BIG HELLO to my […]